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Re:Court rules drug dog barely more accurate than a coin fli... by davik on Friday August 07, 2015 @01:53PM (#10023873)
The coin flip comparison is bad, but I think the article is saying that the precision is very low (like half) but the recall is possibly high. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall
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Re:Court rules drug dog barely more accurate than a coin fli... by harryh on Friday August 07, 2015 @01:56PM (#10023891)
I think that's what the article is trying to say too, it just does a very very bad job of it.
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