I don’t mean to talk down one travesty. But this is just stats meeting reality/human (mis)understanding of stats.
Of course in reality you either get killed by your partner or you don’t, every judgement except „negligible“ and „extreme risk“ will be wrong if you need absolute certainty. And if you want to have a false negative rate of literally 0, you need to return „extreme risk“ for every single case.
Then she suffocated their 6 year old daughter with a pillow and burnt the house down.
SOLAR_FIELDS•9mo ago
The actual headline is a flawed narrative. It should read “police software written by X and deployed under Y’s purview caused death”. The story should be about that, not the falsehood that some nebulous “algorithm” was responsible