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Venkatesh Rao
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Very nice. Why too much evidence is a bad thing. Unanimity an indicator of systemic flaw.
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Why too much evidence can be a bad thing
(Phys.org)—Under ancient Jewish law, if a suspect on trial was unanimously found guilty by all judges, then the suspect was acquitted. This reasoning sounds counterintuitive, but the legislators of...
8:10 PM · Jan 7, 2016
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Venkatesh Rao
@vgr
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Jan 7, 2016
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Related to previous tweet on unanimous evidence being bad, the 10th man rule (World War Z) is real?
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World War Z (2013 movie): Do the Israelis really have a 10th man doctrine?
Answer (1 of 7): The Israeli military does indeed have a similar doctrine but it is not called the 10th man doctrine. Intelligence is all about piecing together information amassed from a variety of...
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Clive Thompson
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Jan 7, 2016
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Why unanimity is suspicious: http://phys.org/news/2016-01-evidence-bad.html… tl;dr: because its statistically unlikely (via
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phys.org
Why too much evidence can be a bad thing
(Phys.org)—Under ancient Jewish law, if a suspect on trial was unanimously found guilty by all judges, then the suspect was acquitted. This reasoning sounds counterintuitive, but the legislators of...
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