Vaniver comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong

74 Post author: Yvain 19 January 2014 02:51AM

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Comment author: wuncidunci 22 January 2014 10:20:52PM 0 points [-]

Did you mean Saint Boole?

And whence the blasphemy?

Comment author: Vaniver 22 January 2014 10:24:51PM *  4 points [-]

And whence the blasphemy?

1265 people are in group A. 947 are in group B, which is completely contained in A. Of all the people in group A, 450 satisfy property C, whereas this is true for 602 people in group B, all of whom are also in group A. 602 is larger than 450, so something has gone wrong.

Comment author: wuncidunci 23 January 2014 07:59:43AM 1 point [-]

Ahh, thank you.