Re:The Programmer Identity Crisis
by Terr_ on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:10AM
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> but it's a reasonable heuristic
I dunno, I feel like the base rate fallacy [0] could easily become a factor... Especially if we don't even have an idea what the false-positive or false-negative rates are yet, let alone true prevalence.
I dunno, I feel like the base rate fallacy [0] could easily become a factor... Especially if we don't even have an idea what the false-positive or false-negative rates are yet, let alone true prevalence.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy