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A wide variety of computer-assisted career guidance systems have been developed over the past decade. These programs use factors such as student interests, aptitude, skills, personality, and family history to recommend a career path. For simplicity, suppose that a program recommends a high school graduate either go to college or join the workforce.
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(a) Hypotheses: “go to college” and “join workforce.” (b) Errors: recommending “go to college” for someone that should “join the workforce” and recommending “join the workforce” for someone that should “go to college.”