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A new screening test has been devised to detect early stages of prostate cancer. However, the test tends to diagnose a lot of peapel with no cancer, although they do have cancer as diagnosed by other standard tests. What is this flaw called?

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A new screening test has been devised to detect early stages of prostate cancer. However, the test tends to diagnose a lot of peapel with no cancer, although they do have cancer as diagnosed by other standard tests. What is this flaw called?

  1. False positive
  2. True positive
  3. False negative
  4. True negative
  5. Poor specificity
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waelhammad
2022-11-05
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The key is C. False negative.

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