Footnote 2

Perhaps the best known Type II-inspired argument is Pascal's Wager. Unconvinced by the many proofs offered for the existence of God, Pascal asked what would be lost if the proposition was true but our evidence scant? For Pascal, the repercussions of making a Type II error were simply too onerous. He chose to believe in God, not because the positive evidence was compelling, but because dismissing the hypothesis would require extraordinary volume of negative evidence.


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