Sentences with phrase «exaggerated false positive»

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Small study size, design flaws, publication bias (failure to publish negative results or duplication of positive results), drug - industry influence, and the play of chance were among the problems Ioannidis found that caused false or exaggerated claims.

But using this tends to blind decision - makers to the costs of acting on false positives: exaggerated warnings or even false alarms.