Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou...
by cortesoft on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:59AM
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> Less information is better?
This really depends. Information that does not help make a good decision is just noise. It might seem like diagnostic information should always help make a good decision, but that isn’t always the case. If the false positive rate is higher than the base rate, a positive test would be more likely to be wrong than right, even with a very high accuracy.
This really depends. Information that does not help make a good decision is just noise. It might seem like diagnostic information should always help make a good decision, but that isn’t always the case. If the false positive rate is higher than the base rate, a positive test would be more likely to be wrong than right, even with a very high accuracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy