misclassification
Placed incorrectly, categorically
Misclassification is the act of putting something in the wrong category, or the error that results.
In employment law, worker misclassification means labeling employees as independent contractors to avoid paying benefits and taxes: The company faced penalties for misclassification of its drivers.
In research, misclassification skews data when subjects are sorted incorrectly.
Incorrect identification marking
- misidentificationWrongly recognizing something
- misdiagnosisIncorrect identification of ailment
- misjudgmentFaulty evaluation of something
- misattributionCrediting the wrong source
Finest taxonomic rank
- genusTaxonomic rank above species
- familyRelated people together
- phylogenyEvolutionary relationships among organisms
- cladisticsClassification by common descent
binomial · nomenclature · morphology · systematics · kingdom · phylum · order · domain
Unjust differential treatment
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- profilingCharacterizing by patterns
- stereotypingOversimplified group-based judgments
- unfairnessUnjust or biased treatment
disproportionate · inequity · skewed · underrepresentation · overrepresentation · fairness · redlining · discriminatory
mislabeling
Incorrect identification marking
- misidentificationWrongly recognizing something
- misdiagnosisIncorrect identification of ailment
- misjudgmentFaulty evaluation of something
misattribution · miscategorization · misassignment · accuracy
species
Finest taxonomic rank
- genusTaxonomic rank above species
- familyRelated people together
- phylogenyEvolutionary relationships among organisms
cladistics · binomial · nomenclature · morphology · systematics · kingdom · phylum · order · domain · specimen
discrimination
Unjust differential treatment
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- profilingCharacterizing by patterns
- stereotypingOversimplified group-based judgments
unfairness · disproportionate · inequity · skewed · underrepresentation · overrepresentation · fairness · redlining · discriminatory
- financial errorsbilling error, bank error, calculation error, rounding error, math error
- wage lawsminimum wage, fair wages, overtime pay, overtime rules, FLSA
- label errorsmisnaming, typo, misnomer, mistagging, misprint
- ML errorsoverfitting, underfitting, type I error, type II error, false positive
- sorting errorsmiscategorization, misfiling, mislabeling, sorting error, misfile
- wageswage, salary, pay, paycheck, income
class, classical, classic, classified, classify, classification, unclassified, reclassify, classifier