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Unless their test involves technology that can lower the uncertainty to acceptable levels, e.g. being able to isolate the blood from certain vessels despite usi
by csallen 10y ago
Unless their test involves technology that can lower the uncertainty to acceptable levels, e.g. being able to isolate the blood from certain vessels despite using a prick method.
Simply saying that the source is messy is not a proof that it's impossible to work around that.
- TillE 10y agoThe source is not merely messy. It's a tiny sample of a fluid which is not absolutely consistent throughout. This is a fundamental problem. You might luck into roughly correct results most of the time, but the basic nature of statistics is against you.
- csallen 10y agoOh I don't disagree with you at all. But even based on what you said, it's not hard to imagine that it's possible to identify and test some previously unidentified component of said fluid that is consistent throughout. My point is only that there is no hard theory decrying this to be impossible in the same way that, say, computer scientists can prove that a problem is NP-complete.