ciphergoth comments on You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 09 December 2009 03:18:51PM *  3 points [-]
  • P(AK=guilty) = .01
  • P(RS=guilty) = .01
  • P(RG=guilty) = .995

Do I think my assessment will coincide with yours? Of course I do, we're supposed to be rationalists!

I had zero familiarity with the case before reading the links provided, and did not read any of the comments in reaching my estimate.

I admit to having non-trivially updated based on my perception of the lack of seriousness of the pro-conviction site's domain name (what is this, Marvel Comics?)

Comment author: ciphergoth 09 December 2009 08:05:06PM 3 points [-]

Those are very high confidences, could you say a little about that?

Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 10 December 2009 03:41:50PM 7 points [-]

The prior probability of a three-way conspiracy to commit rape and murder is way, way lower than the prior probability of it being a one man job.

I didn't see any evidence that would move much probability mass away from the prior probabilities, but this could just be due to the slice of the evidence I saw given my 30 minutes or so of reviewing it.