Accuracy Is Not Enough

Behind technical or statistical language sit people's time, labour, rights and daily decisions; the explanation cannot leave them behind. With imbalanced classes, predicting the common class can yield high accuracy; without error types and costs, the number is hollow. For “Accuracy Is Not Enough”, identify the problem being answered, whose decision may change and what misunderstanding could cost; time, comparison and affected experience then share one frame.

One source can point the way, but a strong conclusion places primary records, observations and differently situated evidence side by side. Compare class balance, confusion matrices, precision, recall, calibration, subgroup performance and baselines. Accuracy is incomplete without training distributions, baselines, held-out tests, uncertainty and examples of failure. Put provenance, collection method, definition and independent corroboration side by side to avoid false certainty.

Dhaka is not the whole country; districts, coasts, haors, hills, industrial areas and migrant households raise different questions. For “Accuracy Is Not Enough”, Bangla, local accents, scarce data and under-representation materially change model behaviour. Place national averages beside district and community differences, clear Bangla terminology, low-connectivity access and implementation gaps; test imported examples against local law, institutions and cost.

Opening the source, checking dates, locating definitions and comparing an independent account exposes many weak claims. A model card should state purpose, data, metrics, limits, unsafe uses and a monitoring plan. To verify “Accuracy Is Not Enough”, write the question, trace the earliest source, separate publication date from data period, compare an independent account and record what remains unknown.

Ethics also asks whose voice counted as evidence, whose experience was omitted and who controls correction. For “Accuracy Is Not Enough”, For high-stakes decisions, assume human review, appeal, privacy and discrimination testing are mandatory. No dataset, model, record or witness contains the whole world. Hiding uncertainty, exposing identity unnecessarily or confusing correlation with cause increases harm; state who pays for error and how correction will reach them.