Yes, it belittles the whole principle of only ordering tests when probability of the disease entity is high.
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Yea, and considering I am, 1) Statistically well-trained; and, 2) Unfortunately familiar with medical testing, it's really weird that I never read any of the articles like the one you quoted and thought, "um, no, you're ignoring a pretty import condition."
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thank you for these tweets! these examples always drive me nuts. (last year I assigned a textbook problem like this, then for extra credit asked to explain why the prior in the textbook is actually wrong.)
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