Re: Certainty and severity levels
Jordà Polo <jorda@ettin.org> writes:
> On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 06:04:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I came up with something a while back, but now I don't remember exactly
>> what it was. Something like certain, probable, possible, and wild
>> guess. I'm not sure those names are any better. :)
>
> Well, those are certainly more meaningful :)
>
> But thinking about it, I'm not sure about the distinction between
> probable and possible. I can appreciate the difference, but aren't both
> words often used interchangeably? Anyway, I would like to use only one
> of them, at least for now, and "possible" seems to be more equidistant
> to certain and wild guess than "probable".
>
> Wild guess is probably the less standard name, but I like it because it
> doesn't imply improbability.
That sounds great to me. :) I agree that the distinction between
probable and possible is thin and easy to lose.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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