Natural Law has the highest Standard
The
U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the highest standard of proof is grounded on
"a fundamental value determination of our society that it is far worse to
convict an innocent man than to let a guilty man go free."
In hypothesis testing, Type I error is to
reject the test hypothesis when it is indeed true.
Type II error is to accept the test hypothesis when some other
(including unknown) hypothesis is the true one.
Area/Domain
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Criterion
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Natural Law
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Greater than 5 sigma (>.999999)
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Technology
|
.9999
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Social science
|
Elegant experimental design and hypothesis testing
|
Operational Test and Evaluation
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Greater than 95%
|
Political science/polling
|
+/-3% (95% Confidence Level)
|
Florida Law
|
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Nation
|
<100*[1 – (1000)/(#Decisions)]
|
Most
surveys have a ninety five percent confidence level. There’s a one in twenty possibility that the overall public
opinion doesn’t fall within the estimated margin of error.
