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Is 90% accuracy good enough to be useful?
by peteforde 3y ago
Is 90% accuracy good enough to be useful?
- AgentOrange1234 3y agoFor what?
- xbar 3y agoA good question. It seems like sex could often be identified with simpler scans.
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- CuriousCosmic 3y agoWell if there's a high sensitivity in the test (which to get 0.9 would suggest a lower specificity) then that'd mean it always can tell when a brain deviates from the "established" sex. i.e. for people who ahead of time aren't known to be intersex or trans, it would be able to identify them with high accuracy. And the sensitivity vs specificity will depend for each category they are testing for (i.e. testing cis male, cis female, trans masc, trans fem, nonbinary, and some of the different intersex categories). i.e It could be a cheaper test to do than genetic testing and if particularly effective may be useful in identifying genetics associated with different sex characteristics.
- quickthrower2 3y agoThat might convince someone they are trans, who may have not come to that conclusion by themselves, which is the AI affecting the ground truth!
- CuriousCosmic 3y agoIt depends on what the 90% is. The research is unpublished so there's no way to know. What is the specificity and sensitivity? Or hell just give me a confusion matrix. That'll give you the answers you care about. If the sensitivity is extremely high then it's an excellent diagnostic for sexual characteristics that are a deviation from the norm. But otherwise tbh I just don't see it being a super useful test.