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Re:Worst Roommate Ever by jessaustin on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:42PM (#16444029)
Yes in this instance false negatives are very bad. It's better to reject ten perfectly acceptable roommates than to accept one crazy ax-murderer roommate.
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Re:Worst Roommate Ever by mrunkel on Friday February 23, 2018 @02:59AM (#16444897)
not for those ten potential roommates it's not. :)

Is it really rational to reject those 10 roommates for no good reason to avoid the 1 in a million hellish roommates?

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Re:Worst Roommate Ever by dmurray on Friday February 23, 2018 @03:44AM (#16445037)
You'd have to reject 9 of them anyway, assuming you only have one room to let. It's not a big deal to reject all 10.
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Re:Worst Roommate Ever by snvzz on Friday February 23, 2018 @08:20AM (#16446113)
>not for those ten potential roommates it's not. :)

But you're doing what makes sense for yourself. Why would you consider a random stranger above yourself in such a situation?

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