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[fritzo]

That is a question for the judge or jury. The statistician's job is to provide a probability distribution, and to argue for the statistical correctness of that distribution based on similar inferences made on validation data.

[damagednoob → fritzo]

In that case, at least with respect to the death penalty, "zero-defects" is precisely what the courts have moved towards.