Comment: Re:People don't understand statistics (Score 1) 215
But getting a comparison that detailed will require a pristine sample from the crime scene.
What if I'm adopted and unknown to me my twin brother lives in the same town ?
But getting a comparison that detailed will require a pristine sample from the crime scene.
What if I'm adopted and unknown to me my twin brother lives in the same town ?
DNA testing probabilities go something like this
we found say 5 markers that match the defendant and the sample. (I picked a small number to make the example shorter)
each of those has the following probabilities of occuring in a random person :
1) 1 in 1000
2) 1 in 10
3) 1 in 10000
4) 1 in 7
5) 1 in 100
so we multiply all those together and get a probability of mismatch of : 1 in 7,000,000,000
I even told a guy at the state crimelab that was stupid - not that he cared.
Dont you mean Textbooks also come in Braille and Kindle versions ? The kindle version does nothing to prevent the Braille version from existing.
It's worth a read of the xbox live forums before coming to a conclusion - Replacing defective fans seems harmless but the MS helpers say it's grounds to ban your console.
Hard to say - Microsoft isn't helping themselves when they say "You were banned for violating our TOS - we're not going to tell you which term or how you violated it because that's our policy".
Right here : Console ban info
There are quite a lot of tests planned over the next few years - Today was first stage performance / guidance / separation & recovery testing - the rest of the rocket was just a mock-up.
From experience - they won't allow her to join because her expected royalties are too small.
I would imagine that Nokia is already collecting from the chipset manufacturers.
Any kind of criminal is an easy target for politicians to beat up on without losing votes. Why ? Because the USA (and china) still bar felons from voting in many cases.
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