I feel like almost all lay discussions regarding classification tasks, which are a very relevant-to-real-life application of stats/ML/AI/whatever-you-call-it, would be improved by people knowing that there is usually a tradeoff involved.
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All of the good, productive arguments to have sound like "At what margin are we comfortable with not catching a few bears, to avoid sweeping up bunnies?"
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That’s basically the sensitivity/specificity tradeoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity … and all classification systems (such as, perhaps most egregiously, trials determining guilt or innocence) suffer from it
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