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Did they use the word accurate? You used the word accurate and then you yourself are going on a tirade about how that’s not correct?

It’s clear the article is talking about why sensitivity is important in layman’s terms and while it could use better writing it’s a real problem in diagnostics. This is why you don’t ask men to take a pregnancy test to check for prostrate cancer. It is accurate but not sensitive.




They used the word “wrong”. Whether or not they used wrong to mean inaccurate, or wrong to mean not sensitive is up to the reader.




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