[sh33mp]

Ah, I was under the impression that RFs choose from a subset of features, not just one feature.

In any case, I agree with the thrust of your original comment that the specifications of the RF algorithm can be relaxed, usually for performance reasons, and still retain strong performance. But this goes back to my original comment that the performance considerations of random forests often aren't highlighted to new learners (whereas introducing ERTs to a beginner would probably shock them - how could you take totally random splits and still get any reasonable performance!)

[Scea91]

> Ah, I was under the impression that RFs choose from a subset of features, not just one feature.

You are correct. For classification the usual rule of thumb is to select square root of the number of features.