On: ML is useful for many things, but not for predicti...

[thwarted]

Our machine learning model used an ensemble of random forest and logistic regression models to predict a paper’s likelihood of replication based on the paper’s text.

This reads like a description of phrenology.

[eimrine → thwarted]

ML able to predict likelihood of replication, which is also a prediction (about something in Nature) to me is a perfect example of GIGO.

[onigirij → thwarted]

That is an excellent point/