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dsrtao ([personal profile] dsrtao) wrote2012-06-03 05:05 pm
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Base Rates and the TSA

http://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...
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