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by igiveup 985 days ago
I believe Pr[evidence | innocence] is p-value (or maybe one minus p-value, not sure). Statisticians use this routinely to test "innocence". It does not mean probability of innocence, but it means something.
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Yeah, it means the probability of the evidence given the person is innocent. If they use it for anything else they're using it wrongly and they shouldn't.