WhetherMan comments on The Cognitive Science of Rationality - Less Wrong

88 Post author: lukeprog 12 September 2011 08:48PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 11 September 2011 02:59:38PM 2 points [-]

the odds that he had had the disease even given the positive test were a million to one

Should be "one to a million".

Comment author: WhetherMan 15 September 2011 01:11:47PM 1 point [-]

I think "one IN a million" is the more common usage in American English.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 September 2011 05:47:04PM 1 point [-]

Technically, "one in a million" and "one to a million" differ. The latter is 1/1000001000000 smaller.