Jane Chiles, a board member, said yesterday that the California bishops' legal objection turned out to be a "false concern" because the information on the surveys was already subject to subpoenas.
But once again the worries about overpopulation proved mistaken as the "green revolution" and further advances in agricultural efficiency boosted food supply.If the world's population growth was a false concern four decades ago, when it peaked at 2% a year, it is even less so now that it has slowed to 1.2%.
Antismoking advocates contend that the health concern is a false one, raised by tobacco companies to cover their true fear: that if cigarettes stop burning on their own, they can be relighted, and smokers will smoke fewer of them, cutting into sales.
First there was Afghanistan, initially justified, unnecessarily prolonged; then Iraq, under what turned out to be a false pretext concerning weapons of mass destruction; and then Libya, where America's support "from behind" proved absolutely essential to the success of the air campaign that helped overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.
It is also important to state that having "a requirement with only one concern" does not mean that this concern is the main concern of the requirement, since the identified concern may be a false positive.
Since CARTs fit interactions by contruction there is a concern for false discoveries, i.e. declaring an interaction significant when it is not.
While the type I (false positive) error probability is a principal concern when considering early termination for effectiveness, and the type II (false negative) error probability for futility, no statistical boundary or stopping rule is generally employed for safety.
Population admixture, which may lead to false-positive association, is a major concern in a genetic association study.
The prevalence of false positives is a concern for all available methods.
