So, according to this, the false positive rate for the Apple Watch in detecting atrial fibrillation is 0.04% (99.6% correct) This means that, on average, Apple Watches will be wrong more than 80% of the time Sound counterintuitive? This is the issue with population screeninghttps://twitter.com/statnews/status/1040273579391242242 …
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Replying to @GidMK
*wrongly diagnose atrial fibrillation 80% of the time . (Not quite the same thing as being wrong 80% of the time. If it *never* diagnosed AF, it would be right almost all the time, as very few people have it!
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Phew! Thanks for the like. As soon as I hit ‘send’ I feared I’d got the wrong end of the stick.
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Lol nah you're correct, but I do think 'wrong' is a better way to convey the issue in a lay manner
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