Why is the Naïve Bayes Algorithm known as Naïve?

• The Naïve Bayes Algorithm is said to be naïve because of its naïve assumption.

• This implies the conditional independence of cause.

• Simply put, the presence of one cause is not normally independent of the presence of other causes.

• This can be considered very difficult to accept in many cases where the probability of a particular feature is strictly correlated with another feature.