Question #3454

Just to be clear on the category confusion

Started by AndrewArabie · started 2023-05-07 15:02 · last activity 2023-05-10 21:51 · 2 replies

So in this argument, the premise is about a group of 100 pieces of luggage that have no explosives whereas the conclusion is about a more realistic sample of luggage that may or may not have explosives?

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  1. Emil-Kunkin · 2023-05-07 19:54

    I think that's a good way to put it. This is an issue with false positives: if the underlying event is sufficiently rare and the odds of a false positive are sufficiently high, then a false positive may actually be more common that a real positive.

  2. AndrewArabie · 2023-05-10 21:51

    Ok thank you Emil

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