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Re:A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition by drhagen on Thursday June 11, 2020 @05:54AM (#23487001)
> Playing tricks using statistics is not new. OJ’s defense lawyer argued that despite OJ being an abusive husband, it is statistically unlikely that he killed his wife.

> > Only one in a thousand abusive husbands eventually murder their wives

> The more pertinent question is what percentage of murdered women were murdered by their abusive ex-husband?

Shouldn't this be "what percentage of murdered women with an abusive ex-husband were murdered by said ex-husband"?

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Re:A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition by suifbwish on Thursday June 11, 2020 @11:46AM (#23490046)
Statistics is only capable of predicting patterns across a sample of data. It is pretty inaccurate when you try to use it to predict a single data point. The Lawyer knew that but also knew a ton of people don’t understand stats
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