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Yeah that is unfortunate, but playing devils advocate, the alternative is no different. Here you may help research efforts to mitigate the disease.
by travisporter 7y ago
Yeah that is unfortunate, but playing devils advocate, the alternative is no different. Here you may help research efforts to mitigate the disease.
- rambojazz 7y agoWhat's the point of not telling you if you tested pos or neg? Are they afraid that with your responsible behavior you can spoil the results by not infecting more people? Are they studying how widespread it is at a given point in time, or are they studying how it is spreading?
- MaulingMonkey 7y agoI'd guess that if they tell you the result, they'll bias their volunteer pool towards those who want to know if they're sick - presumably because they've got symptoms - rather than getting a less biased sampling more representative of the average population.
- DanBC 7y agoThey can't tell you your results because you're anonymised.