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Comment author: ata 04 July 2010 12:43:12AM 7 points [-]

Talk to the statisticians. They've been using "Type I error" and "Type II error" instead of "false positive" and "false negative" for ages.

They're still bad names. It's like making new word processor documents and leaving them titled "Untitled 1" and "Untitled 2" instead of something descriptive.