aka = 'in other words'

[Dan Goncharoff]

Whatever (what ever?) happened to good old "i.e."?
DanG


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> From Wikipedia on "Base rate fallacy":
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> "Thus, in the example the probability was overestimated by more than 100
> times due to the failure to take into account the fact that there are about
> 10000 times more nonterrorists than terrorists (a.k.a. failure to take into
> account the 'prior probability' of being a terrorist)."
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> I have hated this "a.k.a." since the first time it jumped from police
> blotters to general usage in the 1970s.
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> Now I hate it more.
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> JL
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