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PoliticAverse

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2. Guesses based on statistics tend to be right and wrong in relation to the statistics.

Reply to Neoma (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 03:14 PM

Mar 2012

If you found for example that 80% of the people that visit a certain website are actually male, you can infer that the
next person the visit the website is probably male. Such inference will be wrong perhaps 20% of the time.

People that don't fit the norm tend to be misjudged by statistical inferences based on norms.

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Does Google Not Understand Women Or Just Geek Women? [View all] Neoma Mar 2012 OP

That's the problem with algorithms. Xithras Mar 2012 #1

Guesses based on statistics tend to be right and wrong in relation to the statistics. PoliticAverse Mar 2012 #2