The difference comes in in regard to the interpretation of what is a false negative.
The possible alternative is a false negative that leads to no further testing while the thing grows.
They careened from providing a false negative to generating hundreds of false positives.
About 120 women were given false negative results which meant some of them would have benefited from treatment different to what they were given.
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At least 120 women were given false negative results which meant some of them would have benefited from treatment different to the one they were given.
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On the other hand, if you guess that the rustle in the grass is the wind but it turns out to be a hungry lion, your mistake is more serious: The lion was real but you thought it wasn't (a "false negative").
By failing to give the false-negative probability, you make the exact answer incalculable.
At least one case of a false-negative report also raised questions.
False-negative results, which are rarer, also present a quandary for women and doctors who may not find out until much later that a fetus has an abnormality.
In a striking reversal a California federal judge has canceled his earlier order prohibiting an Orange County man from making negative statements, whether "true or false, " about Monex, the controversial precious metals dealer suing him for attempted extortion.
On the other, conservative politicians from Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad downward remain concerned about "negative uses" of the Internet, such as spreading of false rumors.
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