Signal Detection Theory
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Signal detection theory holds that detecting a faint stimulus depends on the observer's decision criterion as well as on sensitivity.
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A radiologist under pressure to miss nothing reports more faint shadows, gaining detections and false alarms together.
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Sensitivity and criterion are separate. Changing the criterion trades one error type for the other without improving vision.