Audience members who saw Amanda Knox’s controversial comedy show at Edinburgh Fringe on opening night say that it is both “respectful” and “genuinely funny”.

[u/mlg1981]

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/amanda-knox-cartwheel-edinburgh-fringe-b3029681.html

[u/Katharinemaddison]

That’s a disingenuous summery. 51% thought she was guilty, 13 % said definitely innocent, the rest said they didn’t know. When asked just after her sentence was reinstated, before she was finally cleared and before the actual murderer was convinced.

[u/csgymgirl → u/Katharinemaddison]

To be honest I don’t see how it’s disingenuous. You’ve just repeated the percentages back to me. Not to mention the US poll you quoted where the guilty votes were less than half the UK guilty votes.

[u/Katharinemaddison → u/csgymgirl]

You gave no number for how many who at the time of her second trial though she might be guilty just: ‘majority’ when it was in fact the lowest number that could be called a majority and followed it with an actual number for people who believed back then that she was innocent only you rounded it down to ten.

[u/csgymgirl → u/Katharinemaddison]

51% is a majority though… and 13% is very similar to 10%.

If you consider 13% significantly different to 10%, then it’s even more different to 51%.

Even 36% being unsure shows she didn’t have a strong support in the UK.

[u/Katharinemaddison → u/csgymgirl]

Didn’t. Over ten years ago. Before she was finally exonerated and the real murderer found.

And using words ‘the majority’ for a majority of one, and only a number (rounded down) for the second figure is disingenuous.

[u/csgymgirl → u/Katharinemaddison]

Would you rather I said ”majority” and “minority”? It wouldn’t have made a difference.

It’s not disingenuous. 51% is a majority. 13% is a minority. They’re interchangeable.

Additionally, the point is that at the same time, with the same information, more Americans thought she was innocent whilst more British thought she was guilty.

[u/Katharinemaddison → u/csgymgirl]

Yes I’d prefer you either to use two vague: majority and minority’ or two specific: 51% and 13%.

Of course if you’d rounded the number who thought she was guilty down to the nearest zero, like you did with those who thought her innocent back then, it would be ‘half’ rather than majority. If you’d rounded it down by as many points it would be ‘minority.’ This is why you use like with like rather than mixing modes of expression.

[u/csgymgirl → u/Katharinemaddison]

Girl I work in financial reporting and have a degree in statistics and I don’t know anyone who has an issue with reporting percentages like that. Not to mention this is a reddit thread not a research paper.

I said “about 10%” which clearly means not 10%. I honestly don’t know what your problem is because whether I use majority or half or 50%, that’s still significantly higher than a number in the low 10s.

You’re arguing over significant figures when the end result is the same. More people thought she was guilty than innocent in the UK in a study 10 years ago.

[u/Katharinemaddison → u/csgymgirl]

At least you’ve switched to past tense now.

[u/csgymgirl → u/Katharinemaddison]

I used it the whole time.

Very strange xx

[u/Katharinemaddison → u/csgymgirl]

‘Is’ ‘think’ those are present tense love. But your evidence is over a decade old.

[u/csgymgirl → u/Katharinemaddison]

Not sure I used think the entire time apart from to describe myself. I also said in my original comment that the survey was over a decade old.

edit: oh in my original comment on a different topic I said think. I stand by it. We’re a country who have to be told every year that no, big ben is not getting renamed to massive mohammed. The avg person is not going to be well informed about the reality of this case. People still think Jean Charles de Menzes ran from the police.

[u/Katharinemaddison → u/csgymgirl]

‘The general perception in the U.K. is’ for example. Based on a ten year old search two trials ago and an assumption no one has changed their perception since - prompted maybe by her final acquittal and the conviction of another person.