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As a computer scientist/programmer, there are three numbers, 0, 1, and infinity. If you're going to index your errors by the natural numbers, and you've got Type 1 Errors and Type 2 Errors, my next question is what a Type 3 Error is, and you know what my next question after that is.

Otherwise, please take this wisdom from programmers, who deal with this sort of thing all the time, and use an enumeration, in this case, {False Positive, False Negative} will do just fine.




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