kodos96 comments on You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event - Less Wrong
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I attempted the test with zero familiarity with the case at hand. I also have very little knowledge of the Italian justice system.
One major problem in presenting a probability assessement is that the links presented in the post offer pratically no facts about the case. They are about a Washington Senator's reaction, instead. It would be ludicrous to answer the questions asked given only this information.
So, I went googling around for more information. I promptly hit a snag in that I do not what a fast-track trial is in the context of Italy, and searching for information on that is made very difficult since the search returns articles on the Kercher case.
Attempting to filter out all the extra fluff about the characters involved, the facts of the case, most especially the DNA, seems to point to Guede. There is no hard evidence supporting Knox's guilt, and Sollecito's DNA on the victim's bra is not suprising given their relationship.
Unless the links I read (mostly obtained via Wikipedia) managed to omit something important, I'd say the following:
Knox guilty: less than 0.1 Sollecito: 0.1 to 0.15 Guede: 0.9
What makes you think that Sollecito is more likely to be guilty than Knox, and possibly more than 15x likely? (Which is quite the difference.)
What likely scenarios are you envisioning that have Guede and Sollecito murdering her without Knox being involved? It seems to me that all the plausible or presented scenarios have Sollecito & Knox acting in concert or in some way covering up for the other, and so their guilts would be closely linked.
Ahhhh... 0.15 isn't 15x 0.1
It's probably justified simply by priors re male/female committing rape/murder
<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)