Like any assessment process, we had false negatives, where we failed to hire great people.
One is you want the test to have as few false negatives as possible.
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The results have only indicated false negatives, not false positives, according to Chief Medical Examiner spokeswoman Ellen Borakove.
They found the newer test was less accurate and yielded more false negatives than previous single-center studies had suggested.
The ideal predictive test would have 0% false positives and 0% false negatives.
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In our own tests at Consumer Reports, we found that the recommended kits showed no false positives and no false negatives.
Not testing at all eliminates false negatives as well as false positives.
The ratio of true positives to false positives and false negatives?
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said that they didn't find home test kits useful for detecting lead because in their test, they found too many false negatives and a few false positive test results.
False negatives could also be an issue, there are consumer brands that are universally bitched about but still in everyday use and generating loads of social media references, like for example, almost every major bank or credit card company.
The time-sensitive pattern created by that pinch-circle motion, along with the motion involved in rotating the dial, are complex enough that Memon says a study of about 100 users has shown it can identify users with about 2% false positives and 2% false negatives.
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That leads to thousands upon thousands of unnecessary biopsies every year. (The test is guilty of false negatives, too: PSA fails to spot cancer 15% of the time.) Moreover, up to 75% of prostate tumors being detected now by PSA are too small to be an immediate threat, asserts Stanford University urologist Thomas Stamey.
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