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It can create a false positive which would result in unnecessary treatment or a false negative which would withhold necessary treatment.
Leonard D. Jaffe, a Surveyor program scientist and custodian of the Surveyor 3 parts brought back from the Moon, stated in a letter to the Planetary Society that a member of his staff reported that a "breach of sterile procedure" took place at just the right time to produce a false positive result.
A false positive results as police apprehend storm chasers in a different van, who warn that a violent tornado is approaching.
To address the large number of false positive results generated by the D–M Soundex, Stephen P. Morse and Alexander Beider created the Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching algorithm.
Type I errors which consist of rejecting a null hypothesis that is true; this amounts to a false positive result.