kermitje

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   by kermitje 6y ago

   Ah indeed, I was wrong. You will get approximately 6 false positives for every true positive. Unfortunately I can't edit my comment anymore.
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   by kermitje 6y ago

   The real false positive rate is much higher than the 5% reported. The false positive rate reported is ~5% in a sample with an equal number of people that did and did not develop cancer, while the ratio in reality is 1/122 (i.e., 1000 p
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   Inside Twitter’s Decision to Fact-Check Trump’s Tweets(onezero.medium.com)

   6 points by kermitje 6y ago|0 comments