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Re:A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition by Gravityloss on Thursday June 11, 2020 @04:56AM (#23486626)
Yes, I think in the modern world with these methods and massive data sets being used in law enforcement, medical sector etc, the people working there should undergo a lot of training about how basic Bayesian inference works etc. We are otherwise in a world of hurt. Healthy people being told they have some really serious rare diseases, maybe even starting treatment, innocent people being prosecuted or killed during raids etc.
Re:A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition by d6e on Thursday June 11, 2020 @05:22AM (#23486804)
Yeah... training almost assuredly won't happen sadly. Especially for cops.
Re:A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition by avs733 on Friday June 12, 2020 @08:26AM (#23498526)
I teach this stuff (biomedical engineering statistics) to undergrads.

The hardest thing for them with probability is false positives. conceptually it does not seem to align well with how the human brain works. I've had students literally get so frustrated the cry because they know what the math says but can't accept that you can test positive for a disease and not have it. They know they are wrong but it's just this weird sticky misconception.