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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by BitwiseFool on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:32PM (#27610694)
"people do not back up qualifying words with the appropriate level of mathematical rigor."

To be fair, how in the world am I supposed to calculate such things and provide a satisfactory number?

The vast majority of my conversations and discourse don't require or benefit from giving a range or specific value to such words. Would the preceding sentence be better if I said 90%, 95%, 99.5% instead of 'vast majority'? And to be honest, most people - especially myself - aren't at all accurate with probability estimates, let alone calculations.

Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by jonathankoren on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:38PM (#27612473)
> To be fair, how in the world am I supposed to calculate such things and provide a satisfactory number?

I take it you're not a Bayesian. ;)