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by NightsRiver on February 7th, 2010

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Rephrased: Why do false positives occur when making predictions about low base rate phenomena? (I need 2 reasons)

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  • by NightsRiver on February 8th, 2010

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    1) In most sciences, clinical psychology included, the person is trained to see the behavior they are looking for, for clinicians they see more illness than there really is.
    2)There are consequences regarding the base rate--they occur infrequently

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  • by Anonymous on February 7th, 2010

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    There seem to be more of them due to the lack of true positives.

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