Glossary · Measurement and evidence

false positive

A finding that accuses a site of something untrue. On an audit tool this is the most expensive defect class, because it costs the reader trust in every other finding on the page.

Measurement and evidence

The vocabulary for saying how strongly something is known.

evidence level · denominator note · percentile rank · population baseline · cohort asymmetry · self-audit invariant · unscored measurement · dated series · change receipt · regression · finding age · graded through a wall · self-audit · placeholder in record · fetcher disagreement · own-host loop · score version · row review · double-counted defect · cosmetic row · gated row · log file analysis · AI referral attribution

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