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Want to see this applied to Warren Buffet who lives in a reasonably modest house, in a modest city, and shuns computers.

• douglaswlance 8y ago
  That's not how statistics works. They're classifying groups, not individuals.
  • emiliobumachar 8y ago
    Really? Could you please elaborate? I would think they are classifying each individual into one of many groups, each group being an arbitrarily delineated social class. If that's true, than Mr. Buffet would indeed have the potential to be misclassified, because his behaviours ("features") are atypical of people as rich as him.
    • ada1981 8y ago
      They may also look at the socioeconomic status of the people you associate with and make inferences.
  • press-any-key 8y ago
    "... socialeconomic group of users ...'