From: foolm0ron | #219
What are you even talking about here? How can you search all 100 cars that have drugs, but still have false negatives? How can you assume that out of the dog's 227, or the coin's 500, all 100 drugs are present? You have no idea how many drugs you missed, in reality.
Those are expected values, and the coin's "400" thing was a typo, where I meant to say 450.
The fact (if only I had written it more clearly) was merely that the dog gets you close to finding all the drugs with only (on average) 227 searches. The coin will only get HALF the drugs with 500 searches (on average).
MY POINT (unwritten, but intended) was that the media wants you to be all "down with dog searching! coins would be better!" when in reality dogs are fairly effective. Thus, in response to this:
From: SmartMuffin | #221
Uh, I don't care about the spending. I care about the violation of civil rights. Have you like NEVER read any of my posts before?
I agree that the war on drugs in an unjust war. That does not give the media an excuse to mislead the public. Based on your previous posts, I think you'll agree with that.
Sorry for the confusion.
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