This Legal Brief Was Brought To You By The Letter "F"

Because "F" is for "Fail", and that's apparently what the Florida Attorney General's Office does at math.  As Eugene Volokh points out:
99% Chance That This Florida Attorney General’s Brief Was Filed by Someone Not Licensed to Practice Law

Odd, you say — wouldn’t it be pretty likely that whoever is signing the brief is likely licensed to do so? Well, I can prove it: Less than 1% of the Florida population is licensed to practice law. Thus, given the small percentage of the population that is licensed to practice law, the overwhelming majority of briefs are not licensed. Thus, my suspicion that the brief was signed by someone who isn’t licensed would be reasonable because, in any given case, there would be, statistically speaking, a 99% likelihood of unauthorized practice of law.

Nonsense!, you say. Nonsense indeed — yet it is the argument that the Florida Attorney General made with regard to licenses to carry concealed firearms.
Oops.

"Sneaky little mathses. Wicked, tricksy, false!"

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