3 ms·

I think machine learning people use a combination (specifically the harmonic mean) of both when evaluating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_score https://en.w

• dx034 10y ago
  They should use it, but articles often drop that (or similar) numbers. It's easy to get headlines if you report 85% accuracy as it sounds good and is easy to understand. Reporting the proper numbers is harder to understand for people who are not working in the field and you'd quickly discover that the model doesn't actually work.