If we ignore their specific language, the plan of coming up with ~20 pieces of moderate evidence is a perfectly reasonable strategy for correctly establishing guilt, assuming that there is absolutely no mitigating evidence. Your complaint seems to be that they use different language/notation than you and I do to talk about evidence, which seems hardly fair.
I honestly have no idea where you’re getting this from. I don’t know of any passage in the post where I complained about Massei and Cristiani’s choice of language; and nor did I attempt to argue (as several people seem to have thought I did) against a strategy of proving one’s case by adducing a large amount of weak evidence in one’s favor (although as a matter of fact I do believe that is the wrong type of argument to expect for a proposition of this sort, and that people have probably been misled by detective stories and the like into thinking it a reasonable strategy, when it would actually be very difficult to make work in practice—that however would be the topic of a separate post, and isn’t addressed in this one).
My criticism of Massei and Cristiani in this post is really quite simple, or so I thought: the type of evidence that they cite to prove that the burglary was faked suggests that they did not realize how high the burden of proof for this proposition was—that, just to prove the burglary was faked, they needed evidence of the same level of strength as would be required to directly prove Knox and Sollecito guilty of murder.
Quite frankly, I’m baffled at how this point seems to have gotten lost, because I thought I was emphatic and indeed repetitious about it in the post.
I honestly have no idea where you’re getting this from. I don’t know of any passage in the post where I complained about Massei and Cristiani’s choice of language; and nor did I attempt to argue (as several people seem to have thought I did) against a strategy of proving one’s case by adducing a large amount of weak evidence in one’s favor (although as a matter of fact I do believe that is the wrong type of argument to expect for a proposition of this sort, and that people have probably been misled by detective stories and the like into thinking it a reasonable strategy, when it would actually be very difficult to make work in practice—that however would be the topic of a separate post, and isn’t addressed in this one).
My criticism of Massei and Cristiani in this post is really quite simple, or so I thought: the type of evidence that they cite to prove that the burglary was faked suggests that they did not realize how high the burden of proof for this proposition was—that, just to prove the burglary was faked, they needed evidence of the same level of strength as would be required to directly prove Knox and Sollecito guilty of murder.
Quite frankly, I’m baffled at how this point seems to have gotten lost, because I thought I was emphatic and indeed repetitious about it in the post.