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A comment on N Guilty Men (1997).

Re:N Guilty Men (1997) by patmcc on Thursday January 07, 2016 @05:13PM (#10861219)
Excellent piece - I think my favourite is the advice to criminals section: "Criminals, therefore, are advised to go to New Mexico (n = 99) or Oklahoma (n = 100)."
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Re:N Guilty Men (1997) by sirclueless on Thursday January 07, 2016 @10:40PM (#10862773)
I particularly like the reasoning they use to determine that N > 1/54 for involuntarily committing people in California.

http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/guilty.htm#T187 http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/guilty.htm#187

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