What a 1% false positive rate means when a university submits 75,000 papers
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"It has a 1% false positive rate" is the kind of sentence that sounds like a specification and behaves like a rounding error, right up until somebody multiplies it by their own volume. One university did that multiplication in public in 2023 and published the arithmetic along with the decision it m…
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What a 1% false positive rate means when a university submits 75,000 papers