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Re:Half of women will get a false positive 3D mammogram, stu... by acchow on Friday March 25, 2022 @11:27PM (#30809010)
Ignoring the difference between recall and precision - off the bat, it seems weird to rely on a test with some 1% error rate for a disease that has a 0.01% occurrence rate. Without doing the math, it seems like it would be mostly “wrong” in some sense (
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