We just had a massive trial of Vingonicus, I’m sure you saw the trial on the Probastream this morning, everyone was tuned in. As you know, there were exactly two witnesses: Jacobimus and Punticious. They both have a long history of not being fully accurate. Jacobimus has a probability of 11/12 of telling the truth and Punticious has a probability of 13/14 of telling the truth. Both Jacobimus and Punticious stated that Vingonicus was guilty! We know that statistically, Vingonicus is guilty with probability 1/1300 . I’m not good at probability, but I heard you are! I was wondering if you could tell me what the probability that Vingonicus is actually guilty? (We can assume that Jacobimus and Punticious telling the truth are independent events.
We just had a massive trial of Vingonicus, I’m sure you saw the trial on the Probastream this morning, everyone was tuned in. As you know, there were exactly two witnesses: Jacobimus and Punticious. They both have a long history of not being fully accurate. Jacobimus has a
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