ArisKatsaris comments on Hearsay, Double Hearsay, and Bayesian Updates - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Mass_Driver 16 February 2012 10:31PM

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 15 February 2012 11:46:58PM 7 points [-]

By "better than chance" do you mean whether when investigating e.g. a murder, the American police and legal system have more than P(1/population of America) of locating and punishing the actual guilty party?