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Comment by aktiur

"They take ID photos of 1856 Chinese men [...]. Half of these men were criminals."

Because half of the general male population is criminal, of course.

The accuracy rate would be very different with a training/testing sample that takes the base rate of criminality into account.

parent aktiur 10 years ago

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