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> Prof. Drosten who developed the test says that cannot happen in practice. Obviously not true False positives are always possible in practice even if they ar
by shawabawa3 7y ago
> Prof. Drosten who developed the test says that cannot happen in practice.
Obviously not true
False positives are always possible in practice even if they aren't possible in theory
Get a bunch of tired lab techs running tests 24/7 and one of them will accidentally write down the wrong result at some point
- cycomanic 7y agoI would not consider that a false positive in the test, maybe in the procedure, but that's quite different. Moreover it is statistically irrelevant, that would maybe account for 1%, but only if they would only note false positives.