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A comment on Cory Doctorow: Our dangerous statistical ignorance. Parent comment
Basically, an extremely low rate of incidence (in Cory's example, 1 in a million) will render a "highly accurate" test meaningless.
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Basically, an extremely low rate of incidence (in Cory's example, 1 in a million) will render a "highly accurate" test meaningless.