wedrifid comments on A Taxonomy of Bias: The Cognitive Miser - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 July 2010 12:12:13AM 5 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.

In this case, though, I had much less trouble than with the statistical errors. Possibly because those are essentially the same thing, differentiated only by which hypothesis is "null". Here, though, a Type 1 system and a Type 2 system are actually very different things. Plus as others have mentioned the ordering on the systems does make sense.

Comment author: wedrifid 04 July 2010 02:53:45AM 3 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.

Some people can not be saved. That is absolutely idiotic.