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Re:Half of women will get a false positive 3D mammogram, stu... by jdthedisciple on Friday March 25, 2022 @02:54PM (#30805805)
Imo you are exaggerating a bit: What you are describing is specificity vs sensitivity [1] which I am fairly certain doctors get educated about pretty early on in their studies. Once you know about that your examples shouldn't be surprising to anyone.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity

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Re:Half of women will get a false positive 3D mammogram, stu... by sarchertech on Friday March 25, 2022 @03:00PM (#30805878)
Any younger doctor has most certainly had sensitivity vs specificity hammered into them in med school.

I remember reading studies about doctors not understanding the stats years ago, but my wife assures me that medical education has over corrected in the last decade or 2.

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