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'"The reality, however, was that for one set of tests, the failure rate was 51.3 per cent. What does that mean? Prosecutors explain: “In other words, Theranos’s
by pdevr 6y ago
'"The reality, however, was that for one set of tests, the failure rate was 51.3 per cent. What does that mean? Prosecutors explain: “In other words, Theranos’s TT3 blood test results were so inaccurate, it was essentially a coin toss whether the patient was getting the right result. The data was devastating.”'
Slightly worse than a coin toss, even after accounting for the inherent bias in a flipped coin :-)
- corty 6y agoIt would have become more accurate, had they inverted the results...
- ballenf 6y agoIf it’s 100% accurate 49 out 100 times and 50% accurate for the rest, the net is more like 75% accurate. Right?
- the_jeremy 6y ago"51% failure rate" doesn't mean "100% accurate 49% of the time, and 50% accurate 51% of the time", it means "right 49% of the time, wrong 51% of the time" - a coin toss.