He is starting from the premise of Guede’s involvement
No he isn’t! He’s starting from the premise that some investigator found the condition of Meredith’s clothing and bloodstains to be unusual given the hypothesis of only one killer. As far as I can tell, he has failed to update properly on the lack of connection between Guede and anyone else who might be a suspect—not to mention the lack of other evidence (e.g. DNA) that would indicate two or more killers.
In order to convince me, or anyone else who’s around the average of 35%, that we should lower our odds to your 1-10% range, I think you have to address the facts more directly.
I’m starting to suspect that we may just have a disagreement about how strong the anti-Knox evidence is. Yes, I agree it isn’t literally zero. But that’s not the point. The point is that it is utterly dwarfed by the other evidence. Exactly how strong of a dwarfing is this? Well, that’s what seems to be the point of contention. I claim the net evidence of Knox’s guilt yields a probability of no more than 0.1; you’re uncomfortable going below 0.35. The only way to resolve this would be to do some sort of rigorous calculation of the inferential power of clothing-mechanics-analysis evidence—something which I think would take us too far away from our main topics here.
I suppose I can console myself with the fact that it’s good news for Amanda and Raffaele (and bad news for the prosecution) if what are probably the most intelligent and sophisticated discussions of their case on the whole Internet consist of vociferous arguments about whether the probability of their guilt should be 0.35, 0.1, or even lower.
No he isn’t! He’s starting from the premise that some investigator found the condition of Meredith’s clothing and bloodstains to be unusual given the hypothesis of only one killer. As far as I can tell, he has failed to update properly on the lack of connection between Guede and anyone else who might be a suspect—not to mention the lack of other evidence (e.g. DNA) that would indicate two or more killers.
I’m starting to suspect that we may just have a disagreement about how strong the anti-Knox evidence is. Yes, I agree it isn’t literally zero. But that’s not the point. The point is that it is utterly dwarfed by the other evidence. Exactly how strong of a dwarfing is this? Well, that’s what seems to be the point of contention. I claim the net evidence of Knox’s guilt yields a probability of no more than 0.1; you’re uncomfortable going below 0.35. The only way to resolve this would be to do some sort of rigorous calculation of the inferential power of clothing-mechanics-analysis evidence—something which I think would take us too far away from our main topics here.
I suppose I can console myself with the fact that it’s good news for Amanda and Raffaele (and bad news for the prosecution) if what are probably the most intelligent and sophisticated discussions of their case on the whole Internet consist of vociferous arguments about whether the probability of their guilt should be 0.35, 0.1, or even lower.