AnnaGilmour 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: komponisto 19 February 2010 02:17:02AM 5 points [-]

(Beginning thread for a debate with Rolf Nelson. Others also welcome to comment, of course.)

Okay, Rolf, so to get things started, I'd like to get your numbers out on the table. So, if you wouldn't mind, please tell me, first of all, your current posterior probability estimates for the guilt of:

  1. Amanda Knox
  2. Raffaele Sollecito
  3. Rudy Guede

(I expect we'll mainly focus on Knox and Sollecito, since that's obviously where our main disagreement is; I've included Guede for the sake of comparison.)

Next, I'd like to know your priors for Knox and Sollecito (and Guede as well, if you wish), by which I mean your estimate of the probability that each suspect would commit a crime of this sort, as of (let's say) a month before Kercher's death.

Then, if you could, please list, in descending order of evidentiary strength, the pieces of information most responsible for moving your estimates away from the above priors -- along with, if you wouldn't mind, a rough order-of-magnitude estimate of the strength of each piece of evidence, in terms of likelihood ratios, bits, or bels, whatever you prefer. (Again, I'm most interested in Knox and Sollecito; Guede is optional, at least for now.)

This should allow us to quickly pinpoint our disagreement(s).

Comment author: AnnaGilmour 21 February 2010 08:12:26PM *  0 points [-]

This should allow us to quickly pinpoint our disagreement(s).

The disagreement most likely stems from the reliability of the Micheli Report for accuracy and comprehensiveness.