I found a great piece by Floyd Rudmin at CounterPunch which uses Bayes Theorem to argue that the # of false positives, even with a decently accurate test, will make the NSA monitoring program a waste of time. I blogged about it here:
http://platosbeard.org/archives/128 As I mention in my blog entry, I do not think people care so much about false positives ("It won't happen to me" or if it does, I trust the system and expect to clear myself) but instead view these results as a screening test and are worried almost exclusively about false negatives. Thoughts? --ravi -- Support something better than yourself: ;-) PeTA: http://www.peta.org/ GreenPeace: http://www.greenpeace.org/
