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Accuracy is a useless statistic: give us precision and recall.
by samfriedman 1y ago
Accuracy is a useless statistic: give us precision and recall.
- henryl 1y agoRecall 91.5, F1 93.3
- paradite 1y agoI think you need to define which one is the positive, and which one is the negative? Is AI generated code the positive?
- LPisGood 1y agoUseless is perhaps a but harsh. It tells you something.
- dymk 1y agoIt tells me nothing because it doesn’t say if they mean precision or recall
- LPisGood 1y agoIt very much tells you something. Accuracy is a measure of overall correctness. Accuracy is something different than precision and recall.
- spott 1y agoOnly if you know the data distribution. It is pretty easy to get 99.99% accuracy on a dataset that is 99.99% a single class for example.