Aron comments on Rationality Quotes 25 - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 January 2009 08:39AM

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Comment author: Aron 28 January 2009 07:33:17PM 0 points [-]

Terrence McKenna was fond of saying essentially the same thing as Vaksel.

"1% occurrence, and 95% accuracy, a diagnostic test would yield only a 19% probability"

Isn't it ~16.1%? (95 * 1) / ((95 * 1) + (5 * 99))