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> arrives at a probability of 183%.

I don't see anything wrong with the math. It simply means that Quick is certainly guilty, with an 83% chance of being double-guilty, which is an obscure legal term I don't expect the technocrat audience of HN to be familiar with.



If you use the word 'probability' the expected range of values is 0-1 or 0 through 100%, you can't really be 'double-guilty' of anything. See also: Bayes theorem, which was formulated expressly with the idea of evaluating evidence. If I see the words 'probability' and '183%' in one sentence than as part of that audience I suspect a buggy algorithm, not a new interpretation of the word probability.

If you can be double guilty of something then does that mean you get to serve two sentences for the same crime too?


Aw, I didn't think I'd need the detestable "/s", Jacques :(


Hehe, ok then. You had me wondering there.


And Poe's law strikes again...


I think you missed parent poster's sarcasm :).


Absolutely.


Think you missed the tongue-in-cheekiness of the post you replied to.


Reminds me of high school statistics class, when the teacher read out in class after a quiz, "[Name] answered negative 4% for the probability in question 3. This is in fact the probability that [Name] passed the quiz."


Sort of like a reverse double jeopardy, huh?




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