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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (53405)	7/22/2002 8:13:28 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

Put another way, if you have two males, and you know nothing about them other than one has been in prison and the other one hasn't, then you know that the one in prison has a 60 percent likelihood of committing a crime while the one not in prison has less than a ten percent likelihood. More accurately, one should say not "of committing a crime" but "of being caught and convicted of committing a crime." They can be quite different things, especially as regards white collar crime.