In reality, the sensitivity cannot be focused on only, and a bad false-positive rate always brings troubles for clinical applications.
One is reminded of hit-man Podhoretz, who in "Ex-Friends" accused almost everybody he'd ever known of bad faith, false consciousness, failure of nerve and/or cowardice.
Nunes, who is the chairman of the House Committee on Intelligence, told me that the biggest change he's seen since he arrived in Congress, in 2002, is the rise of online media outlets and for-profit groups that spread what he views as bad, sometimes false information, which House members then feel obliged to address.
Yet for all his enthusiasm about his charity's triumphs, how could a man who trafficked so widely in human nature not have foreseen other incidents recounted in these letters, as when "that very bad and false subject, Jemima Hiscock, forced open the door of the little beer cellar with knives, and drank until she was dead drunk".
Some have attempted to respond to the worry about bad or false narratives by introducing a reality constraint to narrative views, one that's buttressed by appeal to third-person storytelling (Lindemann 2001; Schechtman 2014, Ch. 3).
As hard as it is for your boyfriend to believe, the world's perfectly capable of wiling away days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries on this cultural see-saw between the the Good and Virtuous, and the Bad and False.
There is a tradeoff between the probability of erroneously accepting the bad lot, a false negative (FN), and the probability of erroneously rejecting the good lot, a false positive (FP).
This kind of fiction is painfully bad, being doubly false.
More than 10% of the rapid tests were giving false bad news.That was worrying.
This would be bad enough if false allegations of rape were commonplace.
