> > Picasa is very good, but I still get plenty of false hits--maybe 1
> > or 2%. That doesn't sound like much, but if a cop cam identifies one
> > or two out of every 100 people on the street as criminal, the
> > watchers are going to be very, very busy, and the population is
> > going to be very, very annoyed...
> 
> That is an invalid extrapolation. An error rate of 2% does not mean
> that 2 out of 100 will be identified as criminals. It simply means
> they will be identified as somebody else.

Quite right. Duh. 

Still, an error rate of 1-2% is significant. It seems to me that, in order to 
be really useful for most purposes, it would have to do much better than that.


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