False-Positive Cost

Decision problem

How strong must evidence be before a particular intervention is justified?

Working model

Error cost depends on more than count. Include action severity, duration, reversibility, affected assets, dependency on the platform, spillover to linked users, support burden, and trust loss.

FP cost(action, user, context, time)
!= one universal constant

Research questions

• How should platforms measure harms that affected users cannot report?
• When is appeal overturn a useful lower bound rather than the false-positive rate?
• How do error costs differ across warnings, friction, capability restrictions, and account removal?
• Which subgroups bear concentrated error or challenge burden?

Affected chapters

Chapters 6, 12, 15, 17, and 19.