Getting it right matters! Covid‐19 pandemic analogies to everyday life in medical sciences.
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| Title: | Getting it right matters! Covid‐19 pandemic analogies to everyday life in medical sciences. |
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| Authors: | Bothe, Tomas L. (AUTHOR), Patzak, Andreas (AUTHOR), Schubert, Rudolf (AUTHOR), Pilz, Niklas (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Acta Physiologica. Sep2021, Vol. 233 Issue 1, p1-5. 5p. 2 Diagrams. |
| Subjects: | COVID-19 pandemic, Medical sciences, Life sciences, Everyday life, Statistical power analysis |
| Abstract: | To reduce the occurrence of false positive results, the scientific community has taken measures such as reporting the I P i value of statistical tests and assumed power in study design. A power of at least 0.8 helps tremendously to keep inflating effect sizes and false positive results in check. It is very unlikely for you to be one of the false negative results and even if you had been tested positive, your chance of actually being infected would only have been around 3.8% (3960 true positives/(3960 true positives + 99 600 false positives), because of a large number of false positives. In other words: The false positive risk of your test is at about 96.2% (99 600 false positives/(3960 true positives + 99 600 false positives). [Extracted from the article] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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