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    Supports→It is 80% probable that Mrs. Brown was run down by a bus operated by Blue Bus Company.

    The probability that any given bus in town belongs to Blue Bus Company is 0.8.

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    Blue Bus (Tribe 1971). Mrs. Brown is run down by a bus. It is common knowledge that 80% of the buses in town are owned by Blue Bus, and the remaining 20% by Red Bus. There was no witness to the accident except Brown who is, however, color-blind. Since Blue Bus owns 80% of the buses in town, it is 80% likely that Brown was run down by a bus operated by Blue Bus, well above the 50% threshold for civil liability. Yet, merely presenting the 80% naked statistics should not be sufficient for Brown to

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