Re:Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduc...
by jonas21 on Monday April 03, 2023 @06:37PM
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No, they're saying that given a true positive, the intervention has positive expected value and given a false positive, the intervention has negative expected value (as there is nothing for the intervention to address in this case, the expected value cannot be positive).
The additional monitoring leads increase the number of false positives such that the overall expected value becomes negative.
The additional monitoring leads increase the number of false positives such that the overall expected value becomes negative.