engelska-franska översättning av false positive

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faux positifNous ignorons combien de terroristes ont été interpellés, combien d'attentats ont été déjoués et combien il y a eu de faux positifs. We do not know how many terrorists were caught, how many attacks were prevented and how many false positives there have been. La Commission cherche donc à mieux clarifier ces critères avec les autorités américaines afin de prévenir tout faux positif à l’avenir. The Commission is, therefore, seeking to better clarify these criteria with the American authorities, in order to prevent future cases of false positives.

A false positive from a cancer screening test will unnecessarily frighten a healthy person; a false negative will deprive them of timely treatment.
A false positive can be returned on a password checking algorithm when the password is tested against a dictionary but the password does not contain a dictionary word.

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