dclayh comments on Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease - Less Wrong

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Comment author: babblefrog 31 May 2010 04:23:52PM 1 point [-]

How much of a statistical correlation would you require? Anything over 50%? 90%? 99%? I'd still have a problem with this. "It is better [one hundred] guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer." - Ben Franklin

Comment author: dclayh 31 May 2010 09:12:04PM 1 point [-]

An article by SteveLandsburg on a similar quote.

And a historical overview of related quotes.