Posts Tagged ‘false positive’
The Conspiracy of Hope
Renée Pellerin is a former CBC health journalist and the author ofConspiracy of Hope, The Truth About Breast Cancer Screening, published by Goose Lane Editions. Below is an except from her article in the Globe and Mail responding to the new guidelines publishedby the CanadianTask Force on Preventative Health Care forbreast cancer screening. “Every woman…
Read MoreDoctors are surprisingly bad at understanding the science of probability
Dr Daniel Morgan, (an associate professor of epidemiology, public health and infectious diseases at the University of Maryland School of Medicine) has found in his research that many physicians misunderstand test results or think tests are more accurate than they are. Doctors especially fail to grasp how false positives work, which means they make crucial…
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