DaFranker comments on Negative and Positive Selection - Less Wrong

71 Post author: alyssavance 06 July 2012 01:34AM

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Comment author: thomblake 19 July 2012 08:26:21PM 2 points [-]

You have to hit them all, then you pretty easily end with no one that can fit.

Worse, for the ones that do, you're probably just responding to noise. If it's very improbable that any applicant will really match all of the screening criteria, then that can become smaller than the probability of a false positive.