I would recommend reading the conclusion before dismissing this as "they picked numbers to throw at the Drake equation That's a misrepresentation of what I sai

I would recommend reading the conclusion before dismissing this as "they picked numbers to throw at the Drake equation That's a misrepresentation of what I said. I made it clear I had only read as far as I had because the premise of the title was unpromising given the unknowns, and that it sounded like an updating of the Drake equation without its flaws in the calculating of probabilities (as implied by the title) addressed. Feel free to summarise how it fundamentally differs from Drake in that important regard, with the findings and their usefulness in the context of the unknowns and title which promises an estimate of extraterrestrial intelligence.