Why do medical tests always have error rates?
The Endeavour 2024-07-23
Summary:
Most people implicitly assume medical tests are infallible. If they test positive for X, they assume they have X. Or if they test negative for X, they’re confident they don’t have X. Neither is necessarily true. Someone recently asked me why medical tests always have an error rate. It’s a good question. A test is […]
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