How Likely Is Someone Accused of Assault by Multiple People to Be Innocent?

Re:How Likely Is Someone Accused of Assault by Multiple Peop... by philwelch on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @01:10AM (#8791801)

Well children in specific are far easier to manipulate. As for DSK, I conceded the possibility of "one or two deranged nut jobs", which is pretty much all that happened in his case.

Agreed that the statistics don't tie out.

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Re:How Likely Is Someone Accused of Assault by Multiple Peop... by s_q_b on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @01:33AM (#8791837)

Yeah, I'm debating off the top of my head. I've seen it happen enough, I'm sure there's a good exemplar case involving adults, but bandwagoning of false allegations is a very real phenomenon.

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Re:How Likely Is Someone Accused of Assault by Multiple Peop... by s_q_b on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @08:32PM (#8848330)

If you don't believe in the correlation of false accusations, perhaps a Bloom Filter could give us some help. Thinking through the details, but check this weekend for a github implementation. Reply or PM if interested in helping out.

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