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Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid by TrevorJ on Thursday September 22, 2016 @05:27PM (#12560510)
That's an excellent point that I have not heard before, thank you for this.
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Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid by andreyvit on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:06AM (#12562447)
It's a textbook case of base rate fallacy. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy

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Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid by n72 on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:21AM (#12563101)
No, it's not. BRF has two components: Generic information about the frequency of events and specific information about the case in question. The item in question doesn't contain these. The item in question is a much simpler point.
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Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid by voxic11 on Thursday September 22, 2016 @07:17PM (#12561139)
It's basically deductive vs inductive reasoning.
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