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So a trivial test that always says "No" will have better accuracy? https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/prostate-cancer/about/key-statistics.html https://www.ca
by diffeomorphism 2y ago
So a trivial test that always says "No" will have better accuracy?
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/prostate-cancer/about/key-statistics.html https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/prostate-cancer/about/ke...
> About 1 in 8 men will get diagnosed with that cancer, through their whole lifetime.
So true_negative/whole_population>=87.5% at least (life time vs currently has cancer).
Or am I misunderstanding the meaning?
- greenavocado 2y agoThis is why accuracy is useless for reasoning about detection of rare things.