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by voxl 1 hour ago
A basic course in statistics will inform you of why a 99.99% accurate test should be looked at with skepticism when diagnosing a rare disease. Yet we see the fancy 9s and think somehow this many 9s is enough.
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Sure, but that’s not what we are talking about
Really? Laws of probability works against your argument.

Such a basic course in statistics needs to be scrutinized.