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It helps to state the structural point precisely rather than just by example. Let p be an agent’s probability of completing a task successfully, so 1-p is its failure probability, and let severity be a random quantity C 0 describing how bad a given failure turns out to be, conditional on failure occurring. The probability that a given run produces a failure whose severity clears some consequential threshold — a deleted database rather than a clumsy sentence — is
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Equation 3 · Model Evaluation
Why Average Success Rate Hides the Failures That Matter Most
This equation states a bound: one expression must stay on the indicated side of the other under the article’s assumptions.
It helps to state the structural point precisely rather than just by example. Let p be an agent’s probability of completing a task successfully, so 1-p is its failure probability, and let severity be a random quantity C 0 describing how bad a given failure turns out to be, conditional on failure occurring. The probability that a given run produces a failure whose severity clears some consequential threshold — a deleted database rather than a clumsy sentence — is
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