[Avodah] The OU on Glatt Poultry

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 06:02:21PM +0000, Rich, Joel via Avodah wrote:
: Which of course raises the question of how does one define the universe
: whern determining if there is a miyut hamatzui and which universe such
: a determination impacts.

This is only a question to the eztent that we insist that ruba de'isa
leqaman and ruba deleisa leqaman are necessarily different things. If
ruba de'isa leqaman is just a means of calculating the odds of getting
an iterm, and ruba deleisa leqaman is an estimate of odds without
listing all the choices, the problem is straightforward.

If the whole thing is about odds just as for deleisa leqaman:

An item is included toward finding a miut hamatzui to the extent that
that item might end up matzui here. The ratio of the weighted average
of the universe of all assur items in the set tmes the probability of
that item ending up the one in question divided by a similar sum over
all items. Can't really be calculated, but can often be estimated well
enough for matzui vs not.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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