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Well, the quoted statement mentions bayesian filtering which is an application of bayesian rule, but it's not as simple as an if.

The other quote 'removing the impossible and normalizing is equivalent to Bayes rule' is a good thing to remember.

Just to mention that drug tests have different rates of false positives and negatives, it's not usually '1% failure'



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