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A short explainer on diagnostic accuracy

Carl explains the properties and limits of diagnostic tests

This is Carl’s clear explanation of why Zum Zum water is rare based on this morning’s post analysing the latest breakthrough test.

In just over 5 minutes, the video explains sensitivity, specificity, the positive predictive value, how prevalence affects the results and the problems of false positives and negatives.

There is a lot to cover in five minutes, but hopefully, this will clear up some of the confusion surrounding test accuracy results.

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