A few days ago
From a statistics standpoint, why is stating a pregnancy test is 99.98% accurate misleading?
From a statistics standpoint, why is stating a pregnancy test is 99.98% accurate misleading?
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A few days ago
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You need to look up and read about Bayes’ Rule.
there are great examples about drug testing that show a good test really isn’t.
but because this is known, tests are designed now to correct for the errors.
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A few days ago
Because it’s only 99.98% accurate during perfect use. Only a very small fraction of the people taking the pill will use it perfectly (perfectly being taking a pill every day at the same time).
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A few days ago
i don’t find it misleading, but i haven’t had but one semester of statistics, it seems that it is very unlikely to be inaccurate, there is a .02% chance that the pregnancy test will be inaccurate.
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A few days ago
its not misleading
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