I'm sure this rebuttal will get as much coverage as the original headline. "Confidence intervals"? "Misclassification rates"? Get out of here with your science-

I'm sure this rebuttal will get as much coverage as the original headline. "Confidence intervals"? "Misclassification rates"? Get out of here with your science-talk, nerd! Sadly, these days I see too many ML practitioners and "data scientists" without the necessary prob/stats foundation. Misinterpreting data happens even to experts, so not surprisingly it's going to happen even more so to amateurs. Suggesting more foundational knowledge is considered elitist. Why shouldn't a month-long bootcamp be as good as a MS/PhD? In this case, the original ACLU results fits a certain narrative and hits all the hot topics so it was bound to be picked up.