Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

blackstone's ratio

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English

Syllables: black-stone's ra-tio
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

3

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The ratio of guilty people who go unpunished by the law to innocent people who are unjustly convicted.

Etymology

After the English jurist William Blackstone, who wrote, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

Questions

What does blackstone's ratio mean?: The ratio of guilty people who go unpunished by the law to innocent people who are unjustly convicted.
Where does blackstone's ratio come from?: After the English jurist William Blackstone, who wrote, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

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