FALSEPOSITIVE
false positive
Noun
- A result of a test that shows as present something that is absent.
- A false positive from a cancer screening test will unnecessarily frighten a healthy person, a false negative will deprive them of timely treatment.
- A false positive can be returned on a password checking algorithm when the password is tested against a dictionary but the password does not contain a dictionary word.
- type I error
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