A subtle difference
I overheard the quality manager of the scientific services company I work for describing the difference between milli and mega as "nuanced".

I'm not sure, but I'm quietly confident that 9 orders of magnitude does not count as a nuance.
(Rushy, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 20:53, 5 replies)

Please
do not tell me he also does not understand that putting either m or M makes, well 9 orders of magnitude difference. *Cries*
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 20:55, closed)

maybe
he's trying to make himself feel better...
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 21:04, closed)

I'm a forensic scientist
I have had to battle for weeks to prevent people referring to 10^15 level statisitcs as "in the order of 1 in 1 billion".

Apparently my factual objection doesn't matter as "the jury won't understand the difference anyway".
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 10:46, closed)

Who are these contemptuous enemies of justice?
If they give the jury the facts, and the jury gets it wrong, it's the jury's fault.

If they don't bother giving the jury the facts, and the jury gets it wrong, that's their fault (not the jury's). And they're as bad as the criminals the defendants are alleged to be.

Do these enemies of justice also ignore the difference between P(A|B) and P(B|A)?

Any chance you could be a whistle-blower for such travesties of justice?

FOR I AM OUTRAGED!
(Honourable Member is upstanding, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 3:34, closed)

I'm less of a whistle-blower
more of a patient-explainer-with-many-weary-sighs.

and thankfully everyone here is quite stern about transposed conditionals. The only time I've encountered them in court is from some of the less respectable defence 'experts'.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 14:02, closed)