Statistician celebrates 'Type I diabetes' diagnosis in stats-pun meme
miniapeur · x · 2026-10-14
A meme circulating in AI/data circles: a doctor tells the patient he tested positive for Type I diabetes, and the statistician is delighted — because "Type I" to him means a 1% false positive rate, i.e. he doesn't have diabetes at all. A pun on Type I errors.
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