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> ... if reliability matters Your analysis ignores the cost of failure to get the right word, or maybe just assumes the office assistant is infallible. That co
by andrewflnr 7y ago
> ... if reliability matters
Your analysis ignores the cost of failure to get the right word, or maybe just assumes the office assistant is infallible. That cost is almost certainly non-zero, and might be much higher than the whole development cost.
- kd5bjo 7y agoThe task as described included an easy for a human but tricky for a computer verification that the correct word will always be a color. Given this, and the need for the system to be tolerant against human error occurring at the paper, I believe a typical untrained human will have a better reliability on this task than almost any automated system. But in the general case you’re absolutely right: any analysis like this should include the costs and probability of faults occurring in each option.
- andrewflnr 7y agoSure, but maybe the assistant gets distracted by other work, or gets sick and don't get a chance to make sure someone else does it, or quits because their boss is a jerk, or any number of other things going wrong. At least a few of these will happen over the course of two years.