The prior for any given person being guilty is on the ‘one in a million’ order of magnitude, but the courts are probably closer to 1 in 10 on the margin (wild ass guess). If you translate “beyond reasonable doubt” to 99% or 99.9%, that still might translate down to 90% once you take into account overconfidence.
From looking at this example, it certainly doesn’t look like the algorithm used by the court system has an innocent to guilty ratio of anywhere near as low as 1 in a million on the marginal cases.
The former dwarfs the latter.
The prior for any given person being guilty is on the ‘one in a million’ order of magnitude, but the courts are probably closer to 1 in 10 on the margin (wild ass guess). If you translate “beyond reasonable doubt” to 99% or 99.9%, that still might translate down to 90% once you take into account overconfidence.
From looking at this example, it certainly doesn’t look like the algorithm used by the court system has an innocent to guilty ratio of anywhere near as low as 1 in a million on the marginal cases.
It’s a bit of an ‘Einstein’s arrogance’ thing