orthonormal comments on Advancing Certainty - Less Wrong

34 Post author: komponisto 18 January 2010 09:51AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 18 January 2010 07:20:15PM 3 points [-]

IAWYC (and don't understand the downvotes); the point in the last paragraph is a key one. Evidence that a suspect is lying should raise the probability of their guilt, but not nearly to the extent that it actually sways judges and juries (because people have the false idea that everyone but perpetrators will be telling the truth).