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who would suffer from a false positive result?

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In case of judiciary system, a false positive means that an innocent person is falsely convicted for crime. This person will suffer without any mistake.

Many times we test the parameter of a machine as: error rate is less than a limit. In such cases, alternative hypothesis is desired claim. A false positive means that we conclude that error rate is less than desired limit even when it is not. Such a machine will pass the QC test and may cause losses for its user.