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I 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 bac
by such_a_casual 11y ago
I 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.