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" Hearing the anecdote, it’s easy to assume that Target’s algorithms are infallible—that everybody receiving coupons for onesies and wet wipes is pregnant. But nobody ever claimed that it was true. "

Tim Harford , The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics


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Tim Harford quote : Hearing the anecdote, it’s easy to assume that Target’s algorithms are infallible—that everybody receiving coupons for onesies and wet wipes is pregnant. But nobody ever claimed that it was true.