SilasBarta comments on The persuasive power of false confessions - Less Wrong

10 Post author: matt 11 December 2009 01:54AM

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Comment author: SilasBarta 11 December 2009 04:21:06PM 1 point [-]

Wow, that sucks. Note to fingerprint experts: P(fingerprints|guilt) is not the same thing as P(guilt|fingerprints,confession). You don't get to use the latter for the former. That's an information cascade.