Probability paradox may be killing thousands

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2016-02-25

Summary:

Brian Kinghorn points to this news article by Christian Grothoff and J. M. Porup, “The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people; ‘Ridiculously optimistic’ machine learning algorithm is ‘completely bullshit,’ says expert.” The article begins: In 2014, the former director of both the CIA and NSA proclaimed that “we kill people based […]

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http://andrewgelman.com/2016/02/25/probability-paradox-kills-thousands/

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bayesian statistics

Authors:

Andrew

Date tagged:

02/25/2016, 11:30

Date published:

02/25/2016, 09:32