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		Retric on May 31, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Too Many Medicines Simply Don’t Work Suppose you test for 1 true positive out of 1001 cases. You are likely to find the actual positive and 50 false ones. However, that’s with a single test. If you run 5+ different tests you are likely able to distinguish the true positive.

6gvONxR4sf7o on May 31, 2019 [–]

To add to this, you can't just run 5+ tests. You have to run wholly independent ones.

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