Give an example of a situation wherein false positive would have a high cost associated with it.

Question

Give an example of a situation wherein a false positive would have a high cost associated with it.

Topic	Evaluation
Type	Sample Question Term 2 CBSE
Class	10

Answer 1

1. Let us consider a model that predicts whether a mail is a spam or not. If the model always predicts that the mail is spam, people would not look at it and eventually might lose important information.
2. Here False Positive condition (Predicting the mail as spam while the mail is not spam) would have a high cost.

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