Quote: bewareshadows "I have to say Roy, the assumption here is that Saints first statements were inaccurate.
The point being made against your assumption is that they were not inaccurate.
for example
I will be in work tomorrow. This is an accurate statement.
However, in the morning I find that my car does not start, or I crash the car. Then I will be late or not make work at all.
It does not make the original statement inaccurate. It means the orginal statement did not account for all possibilities.
There is a difference. An inaccurate statement would suggest either incompetance or misleading tendancies.
Where as the others are arguing it was not inaccurate, it was accurate at the time.
To be fair the club generally get asked by the press when will Walsh be back and they say 2nd Week of April.
It's a simple question with a simple answer.
What you are adovcating is a different response to casual questioning.
When is Walsh back?
Walsh is due back on the 2nd Week of April.
We have rated this at 70% likely to be back on this date, the other 30% takes into account
A 10% chance that his fitness is not up to speed and so may not be able to last a full match
A 5% chance that his injury under duress may break again
There is a 2% chance that another player will keep him out of the team due to form
Then we have the following that Walsh's
Odds of getting canonizedOdds of getting hemorrhoids
These odds are Saints best calculation at this time of Walsh coming back on the 2nd Week in April and are subject to change as are all things and by tomorrow the odds will have shortened or lengthened dependant on many factors some stated here and some not. etc etc etc
When we are asking any question about the future. Any answer is open to chance and risk, in which case you have to assume it is beholdant on the user of that information to take into account that other possibilities exist.
As you can see, in the end the answer 2nd week of April is an off the cuff comment and does not give a full answer as a full answer would require a full legal document every time a simple question is asked.'"
Don't Fancy them odds much
