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by MichaelRazum 2002 days ago
Actually I think the first example was a really simple case, where statistics would expose the error. So even the doctor said, that they experienced an uptick in Down syndrome diagnoses. So basically they just didn't investigate it properly. From my experience every advanced ML-System have proper monitoring and such anomalies would be detected very fast. Especially when you change the machines. Actually it is a shame that the doctors couldn't figure it out by themselves or at least investigate it properly.
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Yeah, it's baffling that there was no one there to link the new machine with the uptick in the diagnoses. It's almost like they didn't care at all that there was an increased number of diagnoses.