Richard Dawkins Quote

Statisticians distinguish false positive from false negative errors, sometimes called type 1 and type 2 errors respectively... There is a type 3 error in which your mind goes totally blank whenever you try to remember which is which of type 1 and type 2.


Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder, Chapter 7 (p. 171), Houghton Mifflin Company. 1998


Statisticians distinguish false positive from false negative errors, sometimes called type 1 and type 2 errors respectively... There is a type 3...

Statisticians distinguish false positive from false negative errors, sometimes called type 1 and type 2 errors respectively... There is a type 3...

Statisticians distinguish false positive from false negative errors, sometimes called type 1 and type 2 errors respectively... There is a type 3...

Statisticians distinguish false positive from false negative errors, sometimes called type 1 and type 2 errors respectively... There is a type 3...