Detecting Lies of Lie Detectors

Bayes Theorem and Prosecutor’s Fallacy using Python

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How accurate a lie detector is. This question is examined many times while explaining the application of Bayes Theorem and it gets a little tricky quite soon. Let me try to simplify the scenario in plain English and then try to answer some questions in plain English but not without examining them with some experiments. You…