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The accuracy of this test is nowhere nearly good enough to do population-wide screening. The clinical setting for this test is memory clinics in which Alzheimer
by tptacek 9mo ago
The accuracy of this test is nowhere nearly good enough to do population-wide screening. The clinical setting for this test is memory clinics in which Alzheimers is already relatively highly likely differentially, and even there you're going to get a surprising number of false positives.
(There's enough info in the supplemental link on this page to have an LLM do the Bayes math for you.)
- probably_wrong 9mo agoOff-topic: I only came to this thread because I thought "I bet some comment will manage to somehow include LLMs in the discussion". Looks like my prior was not too bad :)