False Positive Rate

Famous quotes containing the words false, positive and/or rate:

“Much ado there was, God wot,
He would love and she would not.
She said, never man was true;
He said, none was false to you.”
—Nicholas Breton (1542–1626)

“I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pester’d the world ever convince me of the contrary.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)