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by atakan_gurkan 1035 days ago
Not necessarily. Unless the presence of the accusation already was used to get that 30% number, you also need to take into account the a priori probability of someone maliciously lying (or better yet, the particular accuser to be lying in this case) and apply Bayes's theorem.
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I should have expected Simpson's Paradox here. Nevertheless, I think the possibility of witch-hunting is high.