• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Less than 1%? Did they forget to flip a boolean condition?
    Like that’s worse than random, it’s worse than if you intentionally wanted to be wrong.

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      1 year ago

      How do you figure that’s worse than random? Randomly attempting to predict crimes would likely be 0% accurate. I’m not supporting predictive policing at all, just curious what brought you to that conclusion.

      There are near infinite failure conditions and few successful conditions.

      • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        If you randomly selected a citizen as the culprit every time a crime was committed the only percentage of accuracy it wouldn’t be is 0%, because it’s inevitable you would be right at least once.