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How Misses and False Alarms Affect Operations
Misses and false alarms have different costs, and the right operating point depends on which one your organisation can absorb.
Overview
- Write down both costs before tuning anything: a missed defect and an unnecessary site visit are rarely equal.
- Lowering the threshold buys fewer misses at the price of more false alarms — there is no setting that improves both.
- Alert volume has a second cost that is easy to miss: after a few weeks of noise, real alerts get ignored.
- Track the operational outcome, not only the detection statistics.
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