Base Rates and the TSA
Jun. 3rd, 2012 05:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dsrtaohttp://tsanewsblog.com/3271/news/base-rate-fallacy-dooms-tsas-risk-based-screening/
Summary: if a given TSA apparatchik sees only false positives, they'll dismiss a true positive as a false positive, too. TSA has never seen a true positive, so...
Summary: if a given TSA apparatchik sees only false positives, they'll dismiss a true positive as a false positive, too. TSA has never seen a true positive, so...
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Date: 2012-06-04 11:03 am (UTC)