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Re:Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal: A Case Study on an Onl... by gull on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @07:11AM (#10040187)
But more reliable than betrayer's judgement who never saw it coming.

And what happens if one combines that data with other data?

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Re:Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal: A Case Study on an Onl... by jmnicolas on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @08:16AM (#10040402)
Look at the second comment from the article (from Matt) :

"[...]and you use this computer algorithm to predict betrayal, the computer will predict that you'll be betrayed 4 times during those 10 turns. That's a lot of false positives[...]"

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