wedrifid comments on The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Yvain 13 December 2009 03:01:12PM 3 points [-]

...and why do you assert that? If you have good reasons, I'd like to see a top level post on the subject, since this is my natural response to a bunch of probability estimates given by different people with the same information who are rational enough that I care what they think.

Comment author: wedrifid 13 December 2009 09:52:02PM *  1 point [-]

...and why do you assert that?

Somebody with no information does not so effectively counterbalance ten people who can describe the positions of every atom on the planet.

I calculated an example involving 0.99, 0.5, 0.745 and (1-10^20) but then I noticed badger's link beat me to it.