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A Statistical Analysis of the ICTY's bias. | 220 comments (213 topical, 7 editorial, 0 hidden)
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vladimir:
The cases outstanding only favour the Croats and this by a very small margin. So I'd still go with the convicted indicator.
Are you cherry-picking your indicators?

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Mar 16th, 2009 at 01:48:52 PM EST
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Why are you insinuating that? I'm just reacting to Jake's comment about me being mean spirited (which I really didn't appreciate) and explaining why I think the convicted indicator is best.
by vladimir on Mon Mar 16th, 2009 at 01:51:23 PM EST
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My being mean spirited because I chose the 'convicted' indicator and not the 'acquitted indicator' which in his opinion was much better.
by vladimir on Mon Mar 16th, 2009 at 01:52:40 PM EST
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You misunderstand the use of "mean-spirited". Focus on this instead
Compare indictments, or break down the indictments into convictions, acquittals and outstanding cases, if you like to. But using only convictions is nonsense as long as there are cases outstanding.


Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Mar 16th, 2009 at 01:55:43 PM EST
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First, it's the comparison that I call mean spirited, not you - apologies if that wasn't clear.

Second, I'm not arguing that you should use acquittals - I'm arguing that you should use [convictions*(1 + ongoing/acquittals)], which, unlike convictions, would make sense... kind of.

- Jake

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Mar 16th, 2009 at 02:00:40 PM EST
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