> This methodology doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If you allow yourself to make up (or "hand-label") 70 numbers, why not make up all 702? Well, what is the

> This methodology doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If you allow yourself to make up (or "hand-label") 70 numbers, why not make up all 702? Well, what is the science in that?? See, the headline will tell you that the X% of chance that Y% job will be automated, and we know we have to take that with a grain of salt. However, the statistical models have some extra information, such as which of the 9 variables carries more information about how to predict the labels and etc. Also, some model can also handle somewhat "bad" data, since even though it is crappy, some signal is still there. All that said, we still need to take the prediction with a grain of salt... :D