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> More information is better than less False positives come at a cost. For example there is considerable debate about the use of routine mammograms, because o
by mr_toad 7y ago
> More information is better than less
False positives come at a cost. For example there is considerable debate about the use of routine mammograms, because of the potential stress caused by false positives.
- perl4ever 7y agoI read a paper recently on the Chinese outbreak of COVID-19 that found approximately 80% of the positive test results on people without symptoms were false positives.