Wednesday, July 12, 2006

The Politics of Paranoia and Intimidation

Floyd Rudmin, a professor at a Norwegian university, uses the mathematics of conditional probability, known as Bayes' Theorem, to demonstrate that the NSA's surveillance cannot effectively detect terrorists unless both the percentage of terrorists in the population and the accuracy rate of their identification are far higher than they are.

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