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Pedantic Mathematician here.
If it failed, then it was a heuristic, rather than an algorithm.
Clearly, that's the most important thing about this post.
You're welcome.
Why not both? A bad algorithm based on bad heuristics? There are many many algorithms that fail at what they're supposed to do.
As a non-condescending "mathematician", I'm happy to help.
Pretty much anything trying to predict human behavior is a heuristic; people using them as if they've got some kind of certainty is a problem.
Yes, exactly.