Comment by Aperocky

epochs ago when random forest was part of machine learning nomenclature, we had a strong claim from an adjacent team in the form of a powerpoint circulated upwards that they had achieved almost perfect prediction accuracy.

We relatively quickly identified that the testing set are taken directly from the training set, but the claim has been advertised already so they were more difficult to retract... if it were at all, I left shortly after.

The incentives are not aligned with accurate reporting.