Sentences with phrase «n't false positives»

Don't false positives get corrected in the long run, when other scientists fail to replicate experiments?

It's not a false positive.

Whereas technically the potential threats detected by the system in the past were not false positives — they did accurately pick up tiny, background amounts of DNA from organisms naturally present in the environment — in effect, they were false alarms because they signaled the potential occurrence of a terrorist attack when none had occurred.

Before we can use James Webb to really observe candidate exoplanets and study their atmospheres, we first need to confirm the planets are real — that what we think are planets are not false positives caused, for instance, by stellar activity.

Amazon then performs wake word verification in the cloud to confirm that it wasn't a false positive.

Not exact matches

The data presented last week, though not peer - reviewed, suggests they can do that remarkably well — with the algorithm, in the five - minute testing windows, detecting AFib with a 99.3 % rate of sensitivity and a 0.8 % rate of «false positives.»

Frankly, I'll take the fear of false positives over the fear of ignorantly not knowing I have cancer anytime.

They suggest most women in their 40s should not have routine mammograms because the tests may cause more harm than good because of false positive results (follow - up testing proves negative for cancer).

Claiming a god exists is absolutely a positive statement of false knowledge, but saying we can't know, don't know, and that we as an individual don't have enough evidence to make a positive statement on any gods existance, that's a rational position to take.

Christian disbelief is, instead, a positive testing of what is true and false by a single criterion: «By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God» (1 John 4:2 — 3).

Their positive meaning is lit up only by the fact that in this act He is this God and therefore the true God, distinguished from all false gods by the fact that they are not capable of this act, that they have not in fact accomplished it, that their supposed glory and honour and eternity and omnipotence not only do not include but exclude their self - humiliation.

He is entirely without internal visual imagery and can not represent light or colors to himself, and is positive that his other senses, hearing, etc., were not involved in this false perception.

Not to be able to rescue maternity as a positive symbol for women in a way that can be liberating is really a capitulation to the male false consciousness that tries to convert female potency into the female weakness through which women are subjugated.

Hemp foods will not cause a false positive on a drug test.

Surgically carving someone else's statements to render the original statement completely false is not positive leadership; it lacks integrity.

I am not suggesting it is super-sensitive, but it would give far fewer false positives than the SCAT3 or full BESS.

The problems of false negatives (i.e. the sensor alert not going off when the athlete is later found to have suffered a concussion), and false positives (i.e. the sensor triggering an alert when the athlete is later found not to have suffered a concussion) are real concerns.

Despite the name, a chemical pregnancy is not a false pregnancy or a false positive on a pregnancy test.

The only medications really known to cause false results, false positives specifically, are those medications containing hCG In these cases, your doctor or fertility center will tell you not to take a pregnancy test until these medications have cleared your system.

A positive blood or urine pregnancy test is considered probable, as the test is not 100 percent positive, it can be false positive.

Although studies have indicated that the monitor has a high false positive rate (says the baby is in distress when he is not), the mother who has been told her baby is in distress may be too concerned to remember that it may not be real.

As I've mentioned before (and the false impression I think many people are under when they hear those two words), Positive Discipline IS NOT about telling your kids how fucking amazing they are 24/7.

Babies with a positive result sometimes turn out not to have the disease — what's known as a false positive.

Although we do not have results of confirmatory testing, we would expect a similar rate of false positives for our screening.

In Pakistan, in contrast, bombings are driven by religious differences between people who are ethnically much more similar within a multi-ethnic panorama of predominantly Muslim ethnicities - indeed, often the targets of bombings are secular people, or Christians, or less «fundamentalist» Muslims of the same ethnicity as the bombers, so simple ethnic profiling is not very useful in making a first order assessment of the risk that someone is a bomber and generates vastly more false positives.

Studies show these false positives cause some short - term anxiety, but there is not consensus about lasting harm.

While this method is consistently able to identify bone lesions, it often comes up with false positives and is not able to identify primary tumors.

«Anomaly detection isn't new, and it has a problematic history of reporting a lot of false positives,» says Dr. Will Enck, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and co-author of a paper on the work.

False memories appear to work only for foods you don't eat on a regular basis — if you had one awful experience with chocolate as a child, you've probably had enough positive ones since to override it.

«New tests are more exact and are not as susceptible to the same false - positive or false - negative results associated with current tests,» said Schutzer.

David Colquhoun, a retired pharmacologist and feisty tweeter on these issues, proposes that researchers should report not only the P value, but also how likely the hypothesis needed to be to assure only a 5 percent false positive risk.

Though they can't tell for sure from the data, the researchers say this suggest that patients who had the thallium scans were sent for further testing using the invasive angiography technique because the initial scan gave a false positive for serious blockage.

It must be sensitive enough to highlight potential problems, but not so broad that it generates high numbers of false - positive results, said Dr. Dean Foti, a clinical assistant professor of neurology at the University of British Columbia.

While there are a number of portable tests for cocaine commercially available, these are mainly based on antibody reagents, which can not offer quantitative data and — since the cocaine antibody can bind to something that is not cocaine — can give false positive results.

«As a result, women may have their breasts or ovaries removed unnecessarily when they received a false positive on a BRCA1 or BRCA 2 test because they do not have access to an independent confirmatory test,» the brief says.

It rarely detects important disease and does not reduce mortality and is associated with discomfort for many women, false positive and negative examinations, and extra cost,» said Dr. Linda Humphrey, a co-author of the guideline and a member of ACP's Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee.

The researchers found that false rumours were far more likely to contain negative terms such as «no» or «not» than positive terms such as «like» or «love».

Dr. Hodgson cautions that «false positives» from MRI screening are common given that this scanning method is so sensitive it detects many changes in breast tissue, most of which are not cancer.

Vexing to doctors, the great majority of positive results are false, not because the tandem mass spec or the other assays have made errors but because certain babies are «borderline normal.»

Larson says that one potential disadvantage to using this hypersensitive tool is that it may increase the potential for finding false positives, or cases where an organism is perceived as present when it's not.

There has not yet been a prominent case of misidentification, or false positive, using a facial recognition system.

«You don't necessarily want to make [BioWatch] less sensitive to avoid false positives,» says Seth Foldy, a physician who works on public health informatics and served on the NRC — IOM panel looking at the program.

But the carbon - dating evidence did not persuade him that people maintain similar stem cell reserves: The method involves «a lot of assumptions and steps in which there can be contamination or false positives,» he says.

However, they do not allow us to know whether this information was used to perform the task, or if it reflects the consequences of this task — in other words, spreading information in our brain,» continues Valérian Chambon, researcher at the Departement d'études cognitives at the ENS.. The mapped regions outside of the posterior superior temporal lobe are thus false positives, in a way.

But that effort at least showed that global searches do not necessarily lead to many false positives, as some physicists feared.

To reduce false positives when identifying genetic variations associated with human disease through genome - wide association studies (GWAS), Dartmouth researchers have identified nine traits that are not dependent on P values to predict single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) reproducibility as reported in Human Genetics on October 2, 2014.

The disease is notoriously difficult to diagnose, leading to a large proportion of both false positives — where patients undergo surgery they don't need — as well as false negatives — where appendicitis is mistaken for gas or cramps and left untreated.

Simons is working with the U.S. Geological Survey — in charge of the amphibian monitoring — to account for these false positives, and to better train the volunteers — so they don't write down «chorus frog» [Chorus Frog sound] when all there really was were pickerel frogs.

Many volunteers ended up with false positives — they named frog species whose calls weren't being played.

In addition to the huge hit to your wallet, there's also the potential harm of false positives, and just because a test has traditionally been done for a condition doesn't mean it's the best way to treat it.