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> identified a problem with the script

Shitty academia code strikes again. It's sort of unfortunate that most of academic fields have turned to domain-specific software engineering, which graduates are woefully unprepared to do properly.

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In this case it was not a coding error so much as the undocumented code. The code expected that the binary coding of sex would switch when training classifiers on males and females separately. My colleague left it the same, and so results were switched from what they should be.

the real problem is this code never got peer reviewed.

The peer reviewers are properly not good scripters as well.

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