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Comment by eks391

2 hours ago

That's not how type 1 & type 2 errors work. The article is describing type 2 (false negative) and inverting the output has no correlation with the percent of false positives (type 1)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors

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