Principlev1PR-792
Set agent activation thresholds to favor sensitivity over…
Set agent activation thresholds to favor sensitivity over specificity when false negatives are costlier than false positives — catch more at the cost of more alerts.
Why This Is a Principle
This derives from Every detection system faces a fundamental tradeoff between… (fundamental tradeoff), Losses loom larger than equivalent gains in human… and Negative events carry greater psychological weight… (losses loom larger than gains / negative events carry greater weight). The principle prescribes threshold-setting strategy based on relative costs — when missing a signal is worse than getting a false alarm, the asymmetric cost structure justifies liberal thresholds.