Thread: What is proof?
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Old 10-16-2007, 05:20 AM
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Default Re: What is proof?

If you've studied it, how about giving us a summary of the evidence. When I tried wading through the thread a while back it looked to me like a lot of the evidence was "take our word for it, we've gone over it". If that's the case, we need to see the actual evidence those guys say they've gone over. The few hands I saw posted were not sufficient in themselves imo. Misclicks alone can acccount for a small sample. And a witch hunt mentality can account for a small group of people reporting on unseen evidence.

You mentioned "prepoderance of evidence". That's the proof needed in a civil case as I understand it. I believe they translate that to better than 50%, although I wonder if they really mean that. Anyway, it's a lot less than the "beyond a reasonable doubt" measure for a criminal case. Both of which are far less than the rigorous kinds of mathematical proof you are used to. I don't think either legal definition translates well to a Sklansky Probability number.

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