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Re:On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B (1975) [pdf] by kazinator on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:48AM (#23575618)
If nobody at all has tuberculosis, then even a test heavily biased toward false negative will still produce nothing but false positives.

In that situation, only two kinds of test will avoid false positives: (1) a perfectly reliable test, or else (2) a broken tests that never reports a positive.

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