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I'm not even sure why people report ONLY accuracy as an evaluation metric. It means nothing - appropriately weighted F scores, precision, recall give more insig
by denzil_correa 10y ago
I'm not even sure why people report ONLY accuracy as an evaluation metric. It means nothing - appropriately weighted F scores, precision, recall give more insight into the system.
- dasboth 10y agoCompletely agree. Although if your binary classes are perfectly balanced then accuracy is a valid metric, but that's rarely the case. I guess the problem is that an ROC curve wouldn't create flashy headlines.
- denzil_correa 10y ago> I guess the problem is that an ROC curve wouldn't create flashy headlines. You can, you just need to put in a little bit of work. We don't need to specify the exact accuracy in the title.