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title: False positive rate/risk (inferential testing)
description: "Same as the \"Type I error rate\": the risk of a statistical test rejecting the null hypothesis when the null is a true model of the population. See [inferential testing](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/inferential-testing-tests/) for more detail. Conventionally set at .05."
url: "https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/false-positive-rate-risk-inferential-testing/"
updated: "2023-08-23"
category: All OM book glossary entries
---

# False positive rate/risk (inferential testing)

Same as the "Type I error rate": the risk of a statistical test rejecting the null hypothesis when the null is a true model of the population. See [inferential testing](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/inferential-testing-tests/) for more detail. Conventionally set at .05.