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Letter: Look me in the eye

Published 23 November 2011

From John Baker

You report that the chance of a greater than 70 per cent match between two irises is less than 1 in 10 billion, as if that were very good (15 October, p 21). Given the propensity of police around the world to pool data and treat the global population as suspects, and your report that world population will likely top 7 billion in the next decade (15 October, p 10), that doesn’t seem very good.

Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, UK

Issue no. 2840 published 26 November 2011

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