Sentences with phrase «positive was a false positive»

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Yet «there are false positives and false negatives.

It was a false positive.

The national cost of false - positive tests and overdiagnosed breast cancer is estimated at $ 4 billion a year, according to a 2015 study in Health Affairs.

It points to evidence showing that 2,100 women need to be screened over 11 years to prevent one death, but one in three of them get false - positives.

Amazon says the problem was the result of a false positive.

There are numerous false positives of rising VIX on a modest pullback.

As with all technical indicators, an overbought or oversold indicator may be followed by higher highs or lower lows, giving the impression of a false negative or false positive.

A new genetic test that analyzes the free DNA floating in a pregnant woman's blood was proven to be more effective at predicting chromosomal disorders compared with standard screening tests, due to its much smaller incidence of false - positive results.

The price of being tactical are the inevitable false positives, where you sell only to buy back in at higher prices.

In actuality, if an SDR knows too much, they're actually likely to chase what I call «false positive» opportunities - they look really good in the beginning, but they quickly fall apart when things get serious.

THE BIOPSY»S DANGEROUS CASCADE: HOW TO LESSEN THE NEED FOR INVASIVE TESTING Intervention Track Hosted By: Insigniam Current medical tests are too often marred by high rates of overdiagnosis («false positive» results) or they too often miss the danger altogether («false negatives»).

After two - and - a-half years of giving income investors false hopes of a recovery, the energy infrastructure sector is now ready to stage a sustained positive price trend.

Since the majority of all investigated hypotheses are false, if positive and negative evidence were written up and accepted for publication in equal proportions, then the majority of articles in scientific journals should report no findings.

Most would say that if the device advertises 99 percent accuracy, then there is a 99 percent chance that the device is correctly discerning a diamond, and a 1 percent chance that it has given a false positive reading.

You are under the false impression that Atheism is the positive affirmation of the non existence of god....

Unless you think the amounts of the decay element are varying just the right amount to give a false positive to highly repeatable tests and calibrations from samples all over the world (and beyond with meteorites), then you are wrong.

Live4Him wrote: @Anu: «f) No consequences after death means acts that end in death are only positive» This is false.

Often we can come to the positive truth by considering and rejecting inadequate or false ideas, and perhaps nowhere is this so useful as in the subject we have under consideration.

It is only possible to prove an existential positive (i.e. something does exist) or to show that an universal qualification is false (by way of counter example)

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.

You will have a lot of false positives, and you will be taking many unnecessary evasive and preventive actions that are ineffective.

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).

(2) Hartshorne's second argument is stated as follows:» «Nothing exists» excludes everything positive and so must be false.»

Let the positive word come first, so that the gospel may undercut the fears which cause men to harden their minds and hearts against any criticism; but then the word of judgment is needed to prevent all that is positive in the gospel from creating false peace of mind in personal life or complacency about our national culture.

And Jude, though he wanted to write something positive and encouraging, found it necessary to write a letter of warning against the false teachers who were infiltrating the church.

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.

When you suggest republicans would do anything positive for gay people, you bet I'll argue that detail because it's false.

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.

Which brings us back to Oona Stannard's clear and public statement on 25 February that the Government's «draft guidance is a positive step forward -LSB-... It] helps support schools in counteracting [false impressions of relationships] from within their own carefully planned SRE programmes.»

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.

Romney is proof positive that Mormonism is base in dishonesty, hypocrisy, and false precepts.

This study leaves open the question of whether the green tea tested in this study is contaminated with gluten or if something in the green tea is causing false positive results.

We will also discuss ways you can safely promote the positive attributes of your product in a manner that is neither false nor misleading.

Deactivating the enzymes is done to prevent them from reacting with the assay in an unintended way and causing false positives results.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results, August is packed with false positives, and there's no morals clause for the postseason.

«[USADA] said it could be a false positive,» one of the sources with knowledge of the disclosure said.»

Fearful of a mass drug - test failure — poppy seeds are said to cause false positives — Chimello ordered flight attendants to replace the offending rolls with unseeded ones.

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.

When the SCAT2 was issued, superseding the original SCAT published in 2005, the authors recommended continued reliance on the SAC until prospective studies could be conducted to assess the SCAT2's sensitivity (how good the test is in identifying athletes with concussion; for example, a test which is very sensitive will have few false negatives, rarely missing those later found to have concussion) and specificity (a test with high specificity will have few false positives, rarely mis - classifying people without concussion as having concussion).

These devices are only checking for Lead Based Paint (i.e. > 0.5 % lead) and often give a false positive.

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

Also, keep in mind that there are those that are sensitive enough to pick up what you intend to listen to and those that are too sensitive that they end up creating many «false positives».

Will there be false positives?

First, the number of false positive results is rather high and varies widely by state.

I have six children and after the third, I gave up on the moms groups, and play dates, etc. because it just seemed like so much work to be superficial to try to be positive, and do my hair, and try to match my clothes (let alone put on a bra) to try to keep up with some false image.

With a 99.4 % accuracy rate, the odds are low that your amniocentesis will give you a false positive or negative for a chromosome disorder.

There are a lot of false positives, and parents are getting out of bed terrified because they get an alert.»

But because issues ranging from delays in reporting to false positives can sometimes occur, Wilkerson suggests asking the baby's pediatrician to confirm it came back and if there were any areas of concern.