kodos96 comments on You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event - Less Wrong

31 Post author: komponisto 09 December 2009 04:25AM

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Comment author: kodos96 10 December 2009 11:47:37PM 0 points [-]

Ahhhh... 0.15 isn't 15x 0.1

It's probably justified simply by priors re male/female committing rape/murder

Comment author: gwern 10 December 2009 11:55:56PM 0 points [-]

<0.1 includes values like 0.00000001, y'know. So technically I'm not wrong... But you're right, I saw .1 and .15 and forgot that that was 1.5x, not 15x. (That would require .01)