Pierre de Vos strikes again

[Jamal]

 

[Fudzy]

The latest Vosism is that there is a 70% chance that the protection of information bill would be found unconstitutional by the constitutional court.

http://www.ewn.co.za/Story.aspx?Id=74396

I wonder how he computed this 70% figure.

Well seeing as he's a constitutional law expert I'd imagine broke the information bill into points and then checked how many of them tie into the constitution.

 

[blunomore]

This guy just seems like such a nerd.

 

[JerryMungo]

This guy just seems like such a nerd.

Is that bad?

 

[Palimino]

This guy just seems like such a nerd.

Us nerds are fussy about membership in the Nerds & Geeks Federation. I don’t think de Vos qualifies. Has he applied?

 

[burn]

This guy just seems like such a nerd.

I would expect a constitutional law expert and lecturer at UCT to be a smart sounding guy

 

[Fader4]

This guy just seems like such a nerd.

Hes not.

 

[Fader4]

Anyway, is op upset that Pierre did not say there is 100% chance the bill will be found unconstitutional?

 

[JerryMungo]

No, it irritates me when people make non-sensical statements like assigning a precise mathematical probability to an event which I believe cannot be quantified in this way.

Yeah, it really confuses some folk