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What is a False Positive?

Definition: When a test incorrectly gives a positive result. Frequently used in the context of testing for drugs (banded substance’s, doping ), disease, email spam (see paul graham’s A Plan for Spam or email Ham.

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Who is False Positives?

Ian IrvingFalse Positives is the personal blog of Ian Irving, who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  The blog was started in April 2003.

Ian is an experienced software developer with strengths in translating business needs into working code; delivering user friendly, people and data driven applications. While fluent in many technologies, his current focuses are JavaScript, AJAX, SQL, XML, Web Services, Ruby, and Lotus Notes Domino.

He began his 22+ year career in software development with a computer science degree from the University of Toronto, and has worked with both small companies, and major corporations such as: SunLife Financial, CIBC World Markets, Four Seasons Hotel & Resorts, Celestica, RE/MAX Ontario & Atlantic, IBM Canada, Toyota Canada.

He is Available for hire @ Connected Thinking where he codes, manages and dreams about : Building the People and Data Driven Web

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