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: wedrifid 14 December 2009 08:22:42PM 0 points [-]

The 'truth' (I think.)

Comment author: Jack 14 December 2009 08:32:48PM 0 points [-]

That is what the grammar of the sentence suggests, but how can the same evidence (the obviousness of the truth) indicate both that it was intentionally ignored and that it was fabricated. For that matter "the truth was fabricated" sounds like a category error to me. Truths aren't the sort of thing that can be fabricated. So I think Anna might have meant that the evidence against Knox was fabricated (or maybe the evidence against Guede).

Comment author: wedrifid 14 December 2009 08:39:15PM 1 point [-]

I concluded that she just forgot to proofread and took the meaning as "actively ignored the truth or fabricated falsehoods". (And that question is a good one.)

Comment author: AnnaGilmour 14 December 2009 08:40:08PM 0 points [-]

The case itself, that Amanda and Raffaele had any rightful place being tried. Does that help?

Comment author: Jack 14 December 2009 08:45:50PM 0 points [-]

Yeah I got it. The above went up before your clarification.