@sunnenchien @GabrielDuquette Type I / Type II terms from statistics, "false positive" and "false negative" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors …
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@GabrielDuquette Always tradeoff between 'missing what's there' and 'seeing what isn't there'. Massively important. -
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@GabrielDuquette Public discourse tends to treat both as 1) equally unacceptable and 2) unrelated. Like ignorant children. -
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@GabrielDuquette I think a big part of that is the awful vocabulary. Fuck, *I* can't keep I and II straight. -
@St_Rev @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette "sensitive" ok for one end - ppl understand that oversensitive means seeing things that aren't there -
@simplic10 @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette 'false positive' and 'false negative' are so much better than type I and II, why ever use latter -
@simplic10 @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette but...there should be a catchy term like 'Chesterton Fence' for the...sort of uncertainty principle -
@simplic10 @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette Classical Heisenberg: (error in position) x (error in momentum) => a constant -
@simplic10 @sunnenchien@GabrielDuquette there should be a name for the heuristic (false positive rate) x (false negative rate) => constant - 5 more replies
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