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Re:6 Women Accuse Tech VC Justin Caldbeck of Sexual Assault ... by ebola1717 on Friday June 23, 2017 @04:27PM (#14622484)
Your links say we can believe these allegations with 90-98% confidence. Actually, multiply that by 6 women, and that's 99.9999% confidence, assuming the low end of that. My request services only have to have a 99.9% success rate.
Re:6 Women Accuse Tech VC Justin Caldbeck of Sexual Assault ... by thethirdone on Friday June 23, 2017 @05:50PM (#14623054)
That's assuming that the false accusations are statistically independent. I would expect false accusations to be more common in cases with more accusers.
Re:6 Women Accuse Tech VC Justin Caldbeck of Sexual Assault ... by handedness on Friday June 23, 2017 @07:34PM (#14623546)
I didn't provide that to indicate a confidence level in the guilt of the accused, but to say that the reason we have due process is because serious allegations should be treated seriously, and the comments section of a tech 'blog isn't the place to act as judge, jury, or executioner.

Else we're little better than places that hold mock trials and summary executions.