Re:The Apple Watch heart monitor sends too many people to th...
by jtbayly on Friday October 02, 2020 @03:27PM
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> sending nine out of ten people to the doctor
That's not happening. Only a small number of people went to the doctor. Of that number, 9 out of 10 ended up not being diagnosed with a (new) problem, but it seems that even some of them had related problems that were already diagnosed.
Regardless, we don't know the false positive rate. It's not 90%. You need to know the number of negatives before you can calculate it.
That's not happening. Only a small number of people went to the doctor. Of that number, 9 out of 10 ended up not being diagnosed with a (new) problem, but it seems that even some of them had related problems that were already diagnosed.
Regardless, we don't know the false positive rate. It's not 90%. You need to know the number of negatives before you can calculate it.