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Is a "false negative" a positive?

• vmception 5y ago
  Its a quadrant. Positive, Negative, False Positive, False Negative
• randomswede 5y ago
  It is a determination that something should be rejected, when it really should have been accepted. Similarly, a false positive is something that was accepted, when it should have been rejected. If you have a sufficiently high candidate pool. you can (for a while, at least) live with an interview process with a relatively high false negative rate (that is, x% of the time you don't hire people you should have). If it is typically quick to go from "in through the door" to "is a productive member of the team", it may be that you can live with a high false positive rate (that is, y% of the time you hire people you shouldn't have).