I still love how people simply assume fingerprints are unique even though there has never actually been any studies with a large enough sample size to make that determination<p>Fingerprinting, at least for the purposes of criminal investigations is pseudo-science at best,  akin to the now debunked microscopic hair analysis.<p>DNA is always given as a probabilistic statement &quot;there is a 1:1,000,000 chance this DNA belongs to someone else&quot;<p>However with fingerprints, like microscopic hair analysis, it was simply match&#x2F;no match...  a binary state that is given far far far more weight than it should.  The perceptions of the examiner weigh heavily on the outcome.<p>Finger print examining is an art form, not a scientific discipline