Re:Things I Didn't Learn in 2020
by asadkn on Saturday January 02, 2021 @09:47AM
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Thanks for sharing the story.
Just something interesting you might want to read into. False positives can be much higher than 0.5-4% figures, depending on how you look at it.
Out of the positive results, about 13% [1] and 25% [2] were false. In [2] 400 out of 1570 positives would be false. I have seen as high as 40% being false in other publications.
Just something interesting you might want to read into. False positives can be much higher than 0.5-4% figures, depending on how you look at it.
Out of the positive results, about 13% [1] and 25% [2] were false. In [2] 400 out of 1570 positives would be false. I have seen as high as 40% being false in other publications.
[1] https://www.aacc.org/science-and-research/scientific-shorts/...
[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...