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wirehead-wannabe:

There’s been some talk recently about both criminal justice and translating fuzzy likelihood judgments into hard numbers. So here’s a practical question: how do you interpret the phrase “beyond a reasonable doubt?” Put your answer in the tags expressed as a percent chance of the defendant being guilty.

(via multiheaded1793)

4 months ago · tagged #p < 0.01 #even with that one a reasonably sized prison could have a gang made completely of innocents #criminal justice is fucking scary okay just keep it as far from me as possible · 41 notes · source: wirehead-wannabe · .permalink

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   “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”

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    It isn’t a fixed percentage.

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    Related: n Guilty Men.

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    Depends on the context. The more important or less reversible the decision based on the information, the higher the...

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