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Also a socio-economic level of agency filter effect. At least a couple percent of test results are false positives. Combine those two and you filter out poore
by VLM 11y ago
Also a socio-economic level of agency filter effect. At least a couple percent of test results are false positives. Combine those two and you filter out poorer applicants and lower level, lower income employees. If you need to downsize 5% you can start with drug testing everyone and even if no one uses drugs the high false positive rate will get rid of some employees, now you only have to downsize 2% or something. This also works to reduce spend on welfare type programs and unemployment.
- such_a_casual 11y agoI honestly don't think people realize just how often these tests result in false positives until it happens to them. The only drug test I've ever taken came back positive for meth. XD In addition, people are mislead by % points. Even if only 2% of drug tests come back as false positives, when you multiply that across millions of people and when you have those same people take multiple tests a year... well that's a lot of people getting slapped around by faulty testing.
- GoodOldNe 11y agoAn excellent report on this subject: http://www.cacj.org/documents/sf_crime_lab/studies__misc_materials/falsepositives.pdf http://www.cacj.org/documents/sf_crime_lab/studies__misc_mat... More people should know this. There is a great piece in the Washington Post today about how a false positive result from tea bags left in the trash (which was being sifted through by Sheriff's Deputies after they saw a homeowner shopping at a gardening store, giving them what apparently passes for PC these days) led to a no-knock raid with a SWAT team holding a middle-aged couple that doesn't use drugs at gunpoint for an afternoon.