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Re: Percentage question
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Feb 4, 2013 8:03 PM
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On Feb 4, 5:02 pm, Musatov <marty.musa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 4, 5:01 pm, Musatov <marty.musa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Feb 3, 6:37 pm, William Elliot <ma...@panix.com> wrote:> On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Anonymous wrote: > > > > I heard that lie dector results are correct 53 to 47%. > > > > You heard wrong. If you heard correctly, it could have been > > > "lie dector results are correct 47 to 53% of the time". > > > > > Am I correct in saying that this means that there is a 3% chance of the > > > > test being right and a 97% chance of it being wrong? > > > > No. It indicates that lie decetors results are right about half the time. > > > -truth=-6%+truth,MUSAATOV > > LEFT-3RIGHT
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