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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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false positive rate

/fɔːls ˈpɒz.ɪ.tɪv reɪt/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The reason the real alert was muted along with the eighty before it.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The proportion of quality alerts that flag a problem where none exists, eroding trust in the detection system that raised them.

Evidence

See also

alert fatigueA channel so loud it has achieved the silence it was built to prevent.
anomaly detectionA system that reliably notices the unusual and forwards it to an inbox that treats everything as usual.
data quality ruleA test that fires, raises a ticket, and waits to learn whether anyone meant it.