stackyFACTSThe prosecutor's fallacy is a catastrophic statistical inversion. The processor falsely assumes that the probability of the evidence given innocence is exactly the same as the probability of innocence given the evidence. This simple algebraic swap easily creates monumental logical disasters.
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