Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab
by dguest on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:55AM
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You should account for ignorance in public health policy, but you shouldn't rely on it.
Having more false positives than true positives only works if the people taking the test either don't understand statistics or don't know the test accuracy. I for one would probably ignore a positive result if I thought my chances of true positive were 0.001 and my chances of a false positive were 0.5.
Having more false positives than true positives only works if the people taking the test either don't understand statistics or don't know the test accuracy. I for one would probably ignore a positive result if I thought my chances of true positive were 0.001 and my chances of a false positive were 0.5.