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Re:Data mining Reddit posts reveals how to ask for a favor a... by ronaldx on Saturday May 24, 2014 @11:11AM (#7793459)
This makes the article correct (although makes no allowance for sampling error, nor for overfitting the available data).

Even so, I still dislike the use of this figure, as ROC AUC overstates a poor score: it hints at the model being correct 67% of the time.

In fact, the model is only knowledgeably correct 33% of the time, and just guessing the rest (taking its binary-choice 'score' up to 67%).

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