> > score of -2.1532284. I have the divding line "set" at 30% of the
> > distance between the average ham score and average spam score (30% above
> > the average ham score). So, the dividing line is currently floating
> > around 0.55416414.
>
>
> The only problem I see with this approach is that it treats false
positives and
> false negatives as being equally bad.
Matt, isn't he actually treating an FP as ~2x as bad as an FN? He has the
divider set to 30%, so is biassed in one direction or the other.
Which of course means that by picking the ratio value you can pick pretty
much any fp/fn ratio you want.
Loren
