Re: [asa] Explanatory filter

Not sure what you're asking. Was the video edited? Or was the event
portrayed a result of "design' or "chance"? Two very different questions.

Re: the video: you could do the simple and obtain an original clip of that
at-bat from Major League Baseball (the have a database of every play during
the season) and compare them. Or you could likely run an alogrithm of some
sort on the code that comprises the digitial video file to determine whether
there are any unusual insertions.

Re: the bat / event Examine the bat -- the bat is thicker and heavier at
one end for the purpose of being swung to hit a ball. Look at how the guy
threw the bat -- angle, momentum, etc. and consider the composition and
level of the surface ground. Get one of the NASA guys on this list to do
the physics equations to determine the exact parameters for angular
momentum, etc. necessary to stand a bat on end. Presumably those parameters
are so narrow that we'd conclude it's highly unlikely that a person could
purposefully cause a thrown bat to stand on end. We could then test this
hypothesis by hiring a ballplayer under similar conditions to try and make a
thrown bat stand on end. I'm guessing he wouldn't be able to repeat it in a
thousand tries.

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Randy Isaac <randyisaac@comcast.net>
wrote:

> How would we apply the explanatory filter to this video? Can we determine
> by probabilities whether it was edited? Or designed?
>
> http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1775904
>
> Randy
>

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David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology
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