Fully agree. I seriously don't understand the statistical illiteracy[1] that drives people to take every instance of a (perceived) false positive or false negat

Fully agree. I seriously don't understand the statistical illiteracy[1] that drives people to take every instance of a (perceived) false positive or false negative as a sign of an entire system's unsuitability. I guess a lot of people just have problems with the concept of a counterfactual. Note that this doesn't apply to people's reactions to their _own_ experiences, since it's completely reasonable to have a bit of an emotional reaction to something like getting rejected. [1] I couldn't think of a better way to put this, but it's not quite the right term, since you don't need any education in statistics to understand how irrational these reactions are.