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Accuracy is known to be a unreliable metric to measure the quality of a test (classifier). One paradox is that tests of higher accuracy might have less predictive power than the one with lower accuracy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_paradox
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_paradox