=+6.11 The following case study is reported in the article

“Parking Tickets and Missing Women,” which appears in an early edition of the book Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown. In a Swedish trial on a charge of overtime parking, a police officer testified that he had noted the position of the two air valves on the tires of a parked car: To the closest hour, one valve was at the 1 o’clock i i d h h he 6 o’clock position.

rking in that zone had noted that the valves were ed the car. The owner of the parking place in time ves just happened by chance to be in the same positions. An “expert” witness computed the probability of this occurring as (1/12)(1/12)

5 1/144.