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After Pearl Harbor, some wanted to get rid of early-warning radar systems. The military created the ROC to screen for operators who might misidentify enemy plan
by smittywerben 8y ago
After Pearl Harbor, some wanted to get rid of early-warning radar systems. The military created the ROC to screen for operators who might misidentify enemy planes. The radar did fine, the interpretation was wrong.
- joshgel 8y agoInteresting, do you have a source? I'm interested in misjudgment and cognitive errors, so i'd like to read about this.
- smittywerben 8y agoIt's mostly Wikipedia - the history is a bit scattered. Probably better sources out there. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteristic#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteris... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCR-270 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCR-270 [2] https://archive.org/stream/Vol1PlansAndEarlyOperations#page/n335/ https://archive.org/stream/Vol1PlansAndEarlyOperations#page/...