#Specificity

Tony Blount #ADOS

TonyBlount

We need to end the term “White Supremacy”. It does not speak to the true reality, history, complexity or specificity of oppression anywhere in the world. It allows wolves to

Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D.

KatherineJWu

It's 2021! Time for a crash course in four terms that I often see mixed up when people talk about testing: sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value. These

Friederike Ernst

tw_tter

I would like to talk about antibody tests. There are too many people in my bubble who don't understand why a specificity of say 95% doesn't mean 95% of people

Jon Deeks

deeksj

Follow-on explanation from RSS statementFair questions about the actual figures used, and how this fits with repeated cheap testing as proposed by Michael Mina and others.Key is that the Mina

Chris Booth

drboothy

Assume a test is 90% specific and sensitive, and the disease it is testing has a 1% incidence.You test 1000 people - 10 actually have the disease. Of these 10

Luke Oakden-Rayner

DrLukeOR

What is the most important factor in #COVID19 diagnosis in radiology?All answers were right (w assumptions), but *by far* the most important factor is location.So here is a little tweetorial

Jon Deeks

deeksj

I'm rather concerned by the inability of Test-and-Trace to explain the diagnostic accuracy of the lateral flow test. This was the statement about the performance of Innova in the School

David Fisman

DFisman

I am not sure what’s up with all the angsting about test characteristics of rapid tests. Worried about low specificity and false positives? Repeat the test and only consider repeat

Matias Kaplan

matias_kaplan

Elon Musk's testing tweet is pretty dumb but shows how testing probabilities can be tough. Musk likely was using the BD Veritor antigen test (if I'm wrong please correct me).

Liam Shrivastava

LiamShrivastava

People need to think deeply about what the word solidarity actually means. This isn't some kind of transactional ranking system where one group or individual takes priority over others. This

Jonathan Ryder, MD

JonathanRyderMD

This is a really interesting article for the endocarditis fans out there like me:"Time to blood culture positivity in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia is useful to determine the risk for infective

Ghost

gnjayan

Here's some interesting finding of published article regarding "electronic nose" screening method.since apparently no scientific publication whatsoever have been released by the genose researcher for the - already widely used

James Khalil

JamesKhalil1

Why we are so bad at predicting who will (and will not) become involved in terrorism and violent extremism. (Warning – this thread uses technical terms)1/ Aside from obvious practical/procedural

John Zaozirny

johnzaozirny

THREAD: Was going to do a quick thread on misc. writing tips when I realized that a number of them shared the same overall theme: SPECIFICITY. And, honestly, that's often

Jvala Singh

jvalaaa

Meaning of Singh - Lion or Tiger? [thread]Etymologically the word Singh ਸਿੰਘ comes from the Sanskrit Sinha सिंह, meaning Lion, and its usage was widespread amongst Rajput warriors, who combined

Naoki

hanzawaru

1/ In this thread, I show the possibility of inflated covid-19 case numbers in Victoria, based on post-market RT-PCR test kit validation published by the Australian Government. 2/ Australia ordered

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