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And it's not even as scary as people saying “beyond a reasonable doubt” to mean something like ‘P > 75%’.
Which you can see being done by a LW regular in the LW post Thinking Bayesianically, with Lojban. So it's not like this is something no one does, or something only idiots do.
I'm being slightly unfair. The actual figure being described in those terms is nearer to 76%.