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No good reason for test errors to be uncorrelated, ie. quite possible same people who trigger false positives on the first test would be false positives on the
by notforever 6y ago
No good reason for test errors to be uncorrelated, ie. quite possible same people who trigger false positives on the first test would be false positives on the second etc.
- subroutine 6y agoSure, there will probably be some correlation. Depends heavily on how the 3x testing is designed. T1. Drive up saliva swab by nurse, for serology test. T2. Re-deploy census peeps to get samples (and census info) from entire neighborhoods. T3. 23andMe-like home kit express mail to lab The odds of people getting a FP on all three might not be 1 in 1000, but it probably isn't 1 in 10. Anyway, as it is, leading 1 in 10 people to falsely believe they are immune, isn't much better than having no test at all.