http://nklein.com/2009/07/90-accuracy-fails/ software development and consulting Sun, 20 May 2012 18:07:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://nklein.com/2009/07/90-accuracy-fails/comment-page-1/#comment-177 pat Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:26:12 +0000 http://nklein.com/?p=703#comment-177 Actually, on a second reading, it looks like the article may only be thinking that the test will correctly identify 90% of the terrorists, too. In their sample math in that section, they assume there's only one real terrorist and the test finds that terrorist. In a later section though, they seem to assume there are 300 terrorists and the test would find all of them rather than just 270 of them. Actually, on a second reading, it looks like the article may only be thinking that the test will correctly identify 90% of the terrorists, too. In their sample math in that section, they assume there’s only one real terrorist and the test finds that terrorist. In a later section though, they seem to assume there are 300 terrorists and the test would find all of them rather than just 270 of them.

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