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mhoye but seasonally spooky on Nostr: "Blackstone's Ratio" is famously the argument that "It is better that ten guilty ...

"Blackstone's Ratio" is famously the argument that "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

In mechanical terms, this means that in the application of the law a 90% false-negative rate is morally defensible; a 10% false-positive rate is not.

This is the foundation of our entire idea of "reasonable doubt."

With a 29% accuracy rate, nothing Flock does cannot be reasonably doubted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio

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