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While you can certainly use statements like that to adjust your priors, be careful not to make absolute assumptions - in the US approximately 1% of people who h
by jameshart 5y ago
While you can certainly use statements like that to adjust your priors, be careful not to make absolute assumptions - in the US approximately 1% of people who have a wife are women.
- CoastalCoder 5y agoJust to clarify to help avoid some awkward moments... In the U.S., the normalization of gay marriage has involved a lot of cultural strife over the past few decades. One may still encounter cliques in the U.S. that refuse to accept grammatical constructs such as "her wife" for various reasons.
- namelessoracle 5y agoIf your machine learning model had a indicator that could point to something with 99 percent accuracy, you would tell it to ignore that?
- jameshart 5y agoWell, no. And that isn’t what I said, is it?
- LudwigNagasena 5y agoI would say that an assumption with 99% accuracy is a pretty good one.