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by usrusr 2281 days ago
It's the rate of actual negatives that are perceived as positives.

I make that mistake myself all the time, What helps me avoid it is this: you want a number that is a property of the test method alone, independent of case distributions. A ratio between misidentified positives and identified positives (or true positives) would depend on sample distribution.