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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 09 April 2016 08:36:34AM 4 points [-]

There's no reason why P(E|H) and P(E|~H) must sum to 1, but I can't move the lower right corner without the whole diagram rescaling.

Comment author: Petter 09 April 2016 10:28:20AM 1 point [-]

Agreed. The diagram strongly suggests that they do sum to one, so this geometrical method is more confusing than helpful.

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