| ▲ | jellyroll42 6 hours ago | |
Please look up Bayes' Theorem wrt testing for disease | ||
| ▲ | OutOfHere 6 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Did you mean Bayes rule and not Bayes theorem? In any case, people like you will get others killed. Like I said previously, with your logic, no one should even be stepping on a weighing scale or getting routine annual blood tests. The higher level goal is to lower the burden of testing to make it cheap and widely available to everyone for routine use. Consider the case in England where they checked hospital admissions for HIV despite the absence of symptoms calling for it. They found very many patients who were HIV positive and didn't know it. Your misuse of math would've let them stay undiagnosed while the cases mount. Refer to DOI 10.1016/S2352-3018(26)00109-8. | ||