Some false positives during threshold testing indicate healthy response bias

Evidence

Audiologists should be encouraged by patients who produce some false positives — a false positive is an indicator that the patient has not adopted an excessively conservative criterion. … If a patient struggles to hear the sound at the beginning of the threshold search, he could adopt a criterion that is either too conservative or too liberal throughout the entire threshold search. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 347

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains what a false positive reveals about a patient’s internal response criterion during threshold testing.
• XREF: connects to: Survivor bias makes streaks look like skill even under pure chance — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial…, 344; Mixed-effects meta-analytic models trade precision for fewer false positives — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup…, 79