Grethela scores very high on a graduate school admission test and is admitted to graduate school,largely on the basis of that test score.But Grethela subsequently flunks out.In retrospect,Grethela's score on the admission test is BEST viewed as a

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A false positive is a type of error in which a test result is given as positive when the true result is negative. In this case, Grethela's high score on the admission test was not an accurate predictor of her success in graduate school, making the admission decision a false positive.

Grethela Scores Very High on a Graduate School Admission Test