One assumption that the post (and I assume the paper as well) makes is that there _was_ a thief. It is entirely possible that one user played both the victim and the thief in this story.
We are aware that this is an assumption.
We refer to the 'alleged thief' at several points in our paper, and I mention this in the blog comments.
We'd never get our point across if we exhaustively stated every single assumption we made - but you are right to highlight this - its good to be aware these assumptions are there.
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One assumption that the post (and I assume the paper as well) makes is that there _was_ a thief. It is entirely possible that one user played both the victim and the thief in this story.
We are aware that this is an assumption. We refer to the 'alleged thief' at several points in our paper, and I mention this in the blog comments.
We'd never get our point across if we exhaustively stated every single assumption we made - but you are right to highlight this - its good to be aware these assumptions are there.