[Pil-pc-oceania] pregnant type 1 errors

[jedd]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, pacific-edge wrote:
> Yes, errors do have numbers. Type 1 error is sometimes used by computer
> nerds and comes from an arcane ppractice known as statistics. A Type 1
> error is a statisticians construct.
 ...
> Type I error, also known as an "error of the first kind", an αn error, or a
> "false positive": the error of rejecting a null hypothesis when it is
> actually true.

 Russ,

 I don't think this is how some permies are now annexing the term.

 Bill recently (but perhaps was reiterating) suggested:
  "There are things I call type- one errors. The first one is  
    I say is, for Christ's sake, don't move into a forest if you
    want to feed yourself because you're going to have to destroy
    the forest to feed yourself. That's a type one error. Once you
    make that error, error after error will follow."

 From what I've seen, the term 'type 1' is being used to mean
 fundamental, perhaps original, possibly initial or causal (of
 subsequent errors).

 It certainly saves a few characters over using an English word that
 most people have a passing familiarity of .. and doubtless keeps the
 uninitiated at bay.  Unless you were on the inside you wouldn't
 know what 'type 1' means, but any idiot that stayed awake at school
 up to the age of 10 could probably understand 'fundamental'.

 Jedd.