http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2006/03/rumors-and-suckers/ The Math Factor Podcast Site Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:52:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2006/03/rumors-and-suckers/comment-page-1/#comment-892 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:39:42 +0000 http://theserver.uark.edu/~strauss/?p=40#comment-892 So does this mean that if I know someone who lies with probability 1/4 and I want him or her to not lie quite as much, I should gossip about what they said and that will retroactively make his or her previous statements more likely to be the truth?

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