I thought the fix was the wrong way round, but then I realised that you don’t say anywhere what you mean by “positive”, “negative”, or “cutoff”″. When a test judges a widget defective, is that called a “positive” or “negative” result? If the test involves calculating some score to be compared against the “cutoff”, does exceeding it mean that the widget passes or that it fails?
Yeah, I didn’t want to spend a paragraph on definitions which nobody would be able to keep straight anyway. “False positive” and “false negative” are just very easy-to-confuse terms in general. That’s why I switched to “duds” and “missed opportunities” in the sales funnel section.
I thought the fix was the wrong way round, but then I realised that you don’t say anywhere what you mean by “positive”, “negative”, or “cutoff”″. When a test judges a widget defective, is that called a “positive” or “negative” result? If the test involves calculating some score to be compared against the “cutoff”, does exceeding it mean that the widget passes or that it fails?
Yeah, I didn’t want to spend a paragraph on definitions which nobody would be able to keep straight anyway. “False positive” and “false negative” are just very easy-to-confuse terms in general. That’s why I switched to “duds” and “missed opportunities” in the sales funnel section.