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Can you explain the consequences of overfitting and underfitting in real-world situations? Could you provide some examples that demonstrate when either of these might happen?

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1 answer published. Last candidate submission on May 21 2026, 11:14pm PDT. Interview question asked to Data Scientists interviewing at Hewlett Packard, Elastic, Google and other companies. Original question asked: Can you explain the consequences of overfitting and underfitting in real-world situations? Could you provide some examples that demonstrate when either of these might happen?. Question last reported by a candidate interviewing at Grammarly for a Data Scientist interview on Sep 30 2025, 1:35am PDT.