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Using Human Performance to Estimate the Best Possible Error

For a wildlife-audio classifier, expert listeners can identify most clear recordings with almost no mistakes, so the best achievable error for the task is close to 0%. By contrast, if 12% of river-monitoring clips are so distorted by wind and machinery that even specialists cannot tell what is present, then an excellent system would still be expected to make about 12% error on that portion of the data.

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Updated 2026-08-12

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