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Houshalter comments on Wear a Helmet While Driving a Car - Less Wrong Discussion

47 Post author: James_Miller 30 July 2015 04:36PM

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Comment author: Houshalter 03 August 2015 06:12:58AM 0 points [-]

I am certain that the P(death|~seat belt) != 1.

Comment author: FrameBenignly 03 August 2015 06:43:05AM 1 point [-]

That's irrelevant. As long as the ratio of seatbelt to not seatbelt is 55/100, you'll end up with the same answer. ~seatbelt could be 0.1 or 0.03 or 0.00007.