# Why does Numerai give us targets even they want us to find original signals? (elementary question)

**URL:** <https://forum.numer.ai/t/why-does-numerai-give-us-targets-even-they-want-us-to-find-original-signals-elementary-question/5022>\
**Category:** Signals\
**Created:** [March 6, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/why-does-numerai-give-us-targets-even-they-want-us-to-find-original-signals-elementary-question/5022 "2022-03-06T13:08:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![autratec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@autratec](https://forum.numer.ai/u/autratec)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/why-does-numerai-give-us-targets-even-they-want-us-to-find-original-signals-elementary-question/5022/3 "2022-03-07T11:53:17Z")

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Realized there’s a post here: [Decoding the signals target](http://forum.numer.ai/t/decoding-the-signals-target/2501)

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