Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Intuitively, the false positive problem should be easy to see. If a test produces, say, 1-2% false positives among healthy people, then results saying that 2-3% of people tested positive in a given region just won't really tell you very much. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 24, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Test accuracy has gotten the most discussion here. These tests aren't perfect. They produce false positives (it says you had it when you didn't) and false negatives (it says you didn't when you did). — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 24, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Technically, the issue is not the false positive rate per se but that *we don't know what the true false positive rate* is. If we knew false positives were *exactly* 1%, we could correct for it. But it could be 0.5% or 2.5% or who knows—maybe not what the manufacturer claims. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 24, 2020 Hibernated