Error impact must account for asymmetry and reversibility
In credit recovery, false negatives incur near-full loss while false positives cost only minutes of analyst time. Error impact must be modeled as severity-adjusted, where severity reflects reversibility and downstream detection likelihood.
Supporting evidence
In An Agentic World Where Automation Gets Cheap, Which Work Is Worth Routing to a Human?
Original excerpt
Impact(error) = s × C, where 0 < s ≤ 1