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by Zak 248 days ago
The sensitivity of such a test would be 0. This test had a sensitivity of 91% versus 61% for the glass slide count method, which is a large improvement.

The sample size is pretty small here and the control group even smaller. The paper concludes that a larger study is necessary to confirm the result.

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That is exactly why I gave that example. Why does the headline focus on accuracy then?
To get you to click on it :-)