# Theory Question: Machine Learning & Feature Correlation to Label

I have a theoretical question about creating an artificial feature based off of a binary classification label, and then adding it into my feature set to run my analysis. First, let me show you what I did to the predictor variable to change it, and then let me ask the question/theory behind the results I am seeing.

Copying the label set, this is before I apply any transformations:

array([1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0])


This is after applying many transformations:

array([ 1.54,  1.  , -0.25, -0.42, -0.35,  0.95,  0.73,  0.  , -0.35, 0.54])


Correlation between new feature and the label is 0.12.

Prior to this feature, my decision tree (using gini and a max depth of 5) attained a 5-fold CV score of 0.58 and a balanced accuracy score of 0.60.

If I add in this "transformed" feature to my existing feature set, my decision tree model now has a perfect CV score.

Why would that be the case? I am confused as to how this new feature is making the decision tree train perfectly.