The plain-English version
Precision asks how many predicted positives are correct; recall asks how many actual positives were found.
Why it matters
They reveal different consequences of false alarms and missed cases.
Let’s make it click
A document detector may favor precision when wrong matches are costly, or recall when missing relevant material is costly.
Vibe Bro’s heads-up
A threshold change can improve one measure while worsening the other; evaluate the tradeoff against the user's task.
The docs behind it
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Editorial review · October 28, 2026
Supported: Precision/recall roles and possible threshold tradeoffs are correct.