If you come up with a way of describing two things, I'd encourage better names than "thing 1" and "thing 2". "false positive" and "false negative" are easier

If you come up with a way of describing two things, I'd encourage better names than "thing 1" and "thing 2". "false positive" and "false negative" are easier to understand than "type 1 error" and "type 2 error".