Re:Ontario wrongly separated families on results of Motheris...
by omginternets on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:51PM
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>How often do you test? What other tests are available? What's the cost/benefit tradeoffs?
I don't disagree wit you, but none of what you say gets around the fact that once you start removing children from the custody of their parents, a non-zero FA rate sets in.
>Better techniques for confirming or denying the conclusion may be developed for use before doing anything drastic and irreversible.
Case in point: this is also a signal-detection problem.
You can certainly try to build a more sensitive detector, but the infamous tradeoff doesn't magically go away.
As such, you have to have at least some idea of what kinds of FA-odds you're wiling to tolerate, else you're just flying blind.
And I must insist on this point: the universe doesn't care how disturbing one finds the Hit/FA trade-off. It's still there, even if one doesn't want to look at it.
I don't disagree wit you, but none of what you say gets around the fact that once you start removing children from the custody of their parents, a non-zero FA rate sets in.
>Better techniques for confirming or denying the conclusion may be developed for use before doing anything drastic and irreversible.
Case in point: this is also a signal-detection problem. You can certainly try to build a more sensitive detector, but the infamous tradeoff doesn't magically go away.
As such, you have to have at least some idea of what kinds of FA-odds you're wiling to tolerate, else you're just flying blind.
And I must insist on this point: the universe doesn't care how disturbing one finds the Hit/FA trade-off. It's still there, even if one doesn't want to look at it.