aka = 'in other words'

[Jonathan Lighter]

They don't say it on cop shows.

JL

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Whatever (what ever?) happened to good old "i.e."?
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> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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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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