Uh Oh A False Negative
Something to consider.:
A cute, furry rabbit is hippity-hopping down her favorite path on the way to the local hangout, aka the watering hole. She is startled by the wind moving something in the brush. Fight-or-flight kicks in; there is a surge of adrenaline, so she takes off running for her life, as is her habit. Whew! False alarm, it was just another rabbit. This is a false positive (Type I error).
She greets her brother at the watering hole. They drink their fill and frolic. It's time for little bro to head out. He bids his sister farewell, and he's off up the same path. There is again a rustling off the path in the brush, there always is... a rustling. He pays it no never mind. Ahh, poor guy, he succumbs to a false negative, a ravenous feline, a Bobcat, and bro is just in time for dinner. This is a false negative (Type II error)
So the next time you encounter some of us ADOS/FBAs adjacent folk whose attitude is, an evidently simplistic, "White people bad, Black people good." Even though this flies in the face of readily available examples to the contrary, have a little sympathy, consider our devils. It is exhausting deciding, "hmm, is this Type I or Type II," whenever we walk out the door, and we are f*cking exhausted.
A false positive (Type I error) occurs when a test incorrectly indicates the presence of a condition or signal when it is actually absent ("false alarm"). A false negative (Type II error) occurs when a test incorrectly indicates the absence of a condition, failing to detect it when it is present ("missed" event)
ADOS- American Descendants Of Slavery
FBA- Foundational Black Americans (this term seems more preferred in most of our communities.)
Questions and comments welcomed
