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biohacker42
6402 days ago
The cost of false positives is another, better test.
The cost of false negatives is grim.
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theantidote
6402 days ago
That's why most of these tests are made so that they give more false positives than false negatives. Something about the alpha value that I learned a long time ago in statistics.
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