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Comment author: gjm 27 April 2009 11:45:07AM 0 points [-]

That would make it effectively impossible to distinguish between 1 and 0.001, or 99 and 99.999. To get around that we'd need to work with something like log(odds ratio), but then there isn't any natural choice of endpoints, people's intuition for what goes where will generally be poor, etc.