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Experiments, testing & rollout · Core

False negative

Also called: Type II error

ELI5

The test misses a real effect.

Used in conversation

“The small sample creates false-negative risk.”

Definition

A result failing to detect an effect that is real under the tested assumptions.

Here “False negative” means: A result failing to detect an effect that is real under the tested assumptions.

Pitch context

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Sources & evidence · 2

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.