| ▲ | cafard 3 days ago |
| My apologies to the guy who first proposed that the shootings were related--I thought that was a real stretch. |
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| ▲ | energy123 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Unless there was a reason to believe they were related, I wouldn't apologize to a broken clock. |
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| ▲ | ndarray 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | There are two types of broken clocks. One is always suspicious, the other thinks nothing ever happens. One is more often right than the other, but both are equally broken. | | |
| ▲ | energy123 a day ago | parent [-] | | There's a world of difference between "nothing happens with 100% probability" and "nothing happens with 98% probability", even though they can look like the same thing when talking casually. |
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| ▲ | notKilgoreTrout 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The arguments against seemed to show the weakness of frequentists in practical deduction..
It certainly could have been a domestic where the police already knew but weren't communicating it but otherwise most suggestions didn't match the statistics of the specific demographic/locations to compete with the anomaly of a total AWOL with good luck, nothing to lose and a connection to top academia who wasn't dead or in jail. |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It was a stretch, but that didn't mean it wasn't possible. |
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| ▲ | binary132 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| yeah, very surprising |
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