I'm the same with diabetes. Pretentious!
I immediately discount people who use the terminology "type 1 error" and "type 2 error" instead of "false positive" and "false negative" as bullshitters. It's jargon designed to prevent understanding by outsiders. Linguistic rent-seeking!
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I immediately discount people who use the terminology "false positive" and "false negative" instead of "false alarm" and "miss" as bullshitters.
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Good point – sad to have let some jargon slip into my own nomenclature!
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The way I remember which way around it is is "in the boy cried wolf story, the villagers committed Type I and Type II errors, in that order"
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That's a good "heuristic" (aka "rule of thumb")!
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This risks type I error because some people might just be used to the term and not thinking about optimal communication
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This. They're crap terms that there's no reason to use, but it's daft that that observation here comes attached to the assumption that anyone using them has some nefarious motive from which we can immediately draw sweeping conclusions about their whole character.
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What does linguistic rent-seeking mean?
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It's jargon designed to prevent understanding by outsiders.
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