Reply to post: Re: detects 94 per cent of Daesh propaganda with 99.995 per cent accuracy

UK Home Sec Amber Rudd unveils extremism blocking tool

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Re: detects 94 per cent of Daesh propaganda with 99.995 per cent accuracy

What does that actually mean? Either it detects something as what it's looking for or it doesn't. If it detects 94% than that's a meaningful figure. But what does "with 99.99f% accuracy" mean? Unless it's a means of saying it has 0.005% false positives - which they could say more explicitly - I can't see that it has any meaning at all. I would instinctively distrust anyone who produces a statement like that. OTOH I suppose there might have been something meaningful that went into the Rudd "I don't really understand it but it went something like this" regurgitation mill.

I wish she and Davis would swap jobs. He seems to have his head screwed on right about the Home Office and its doings while she seems sound on Brexit.

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