DSimon comments on Better Disagreement - Less Wrong

70 Post author: lukeprog 24 October 2011 09:13PM

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Comment author: DSimon 24 October 2011 01:01:03AM *  8 points [-]

I really like this article a lot, and want to adopt these terms into more general usage. An important step to accomplishing this is to stop referring to the items by number, and use their gloss descriptions. "False positive" is a lot easier to remember than "type I error" (or is it type II....)