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by ramraj07 1634 days ago
Did they use the word accurate? You used the word accurate and then you yourself are going on a tirade about how that’s not correct?

It’s clear the article is talking about why sensitivity is important in layman’s terms and while it could use better writing it’s a real problem in diagnostics. This is why you don’t ask men to take a pregnancy test to check for prostrate cancer. It is accurate but not sensitive.

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They used the word “wrong”. Whether or not they used wrong to mean inaccurate, or wrong to mean not sensitive is up to the reader.