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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
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A false positive might be a waste of time. A false negative could be fatal
A)Does "A false positive might be a waste of time. A false negative could be fatal" mean "(if you have) a false positive impression (for a person, for instance) is likely a waste of time; a false negative impression (for a person) could be a significant mistake that may inflict great loss"?
B)Does "human causation" mean "the origin of human"?
Background info:
something to do with the fact that many people have not had their consciousness raised, as biologists have, by natural selection and its power to tame improbability. J. Anderson Thomson, from his
perspective as an evolutionary psychiatrist, points me to an additional reason, the psychological bias that we all have towards personifying inanimate objects as agents. As Thomson says, we are
more inclined to mistake a shadow for a burglar than a burglar for a shadow. A false positive might be a waste of time. A false negative could be fatal. In a letter to me, he suggested that, in our ancestral past, our greatest challenge in our environment came from each other. 'The legacy of that is the default assumption, often fear, of human intention. We have a great deal of difficulty seeing anything other than human causation.' We naturally generalized that to divine intention. I shall return to the seductiveness of 'agents' in
Chapter 5.
B)Does "human causation" mean "the origin of human"?
Background info:
something to do with the fact that many people have not had their consciousness raised, as biologists have, by natural selection and its power to tame improbability. J. Anderson Thomson, from his
perspective as an evolutionary psychiatrist, points me to an additional reason, the psychological bias that we all have towards personifying inanimate objects as agents. As Thomson says, we are
more inclined to mistake a shadow for a burglar than a burglar for a shadow. A false positive might be a waste of time. A false negative could be fatal. In a letter to me, he suggested that, in our ancestral past, our greatest challenge in our environment came from each other. 'The legacy of that is the default assumption, often fear, of human intention. We have a great deal of difficulty seeing anything other than human causation.' We naturally generalized that to divine intention. I shall return to the seductiveness of 'agents' in
Chapter 5.
Top answer
A false positive is when you think there is a problem, but there isn't. You call the police, but it's a shadow. You think you have an illness and get treatment, but you didn't really need it.
- A false positive is when you think there is a problem, but there isn't.
- You call the police, but it's a shadow.
- You think you have an illness and get treatment, but you didn't really need it.
- A false negative means there really is a problem, but you think there is not.
- Your medical test says you don't have a disease, so you get no treatment and you die.
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A false positive is when you think there is a problem, but there isn't. You call the police, but it's a shadow. You think you have an illness and get treatment, but you didn't really need it.
A false negative means there really is a problem, but you think there is not. Your medical test says you don't have a disease, so you get no treatment and you die. You never see the mugger, but he's
A false negative means there really is a problem, but you think there is not. Your medical test says you don't have a disease, so you get no treatment and you die. You never see the mugger, but he's
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