#Test

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

A toy example of why test sensitivity and specificity matter in serosurveys.Imagine population seroprevalence is 4%. Test sensitivity is 80%. Specificity is 99.9%. For a random sample of 3000 participants,

PRACTICING PATHOLOGISTS SOCIETY

4PatientCare

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Alan Kinsella

electionlit

Ok, never thought I'd be doing this...A thread on testing software (which is my job). There should be a Product Requirements Document. This should be agreed between all the relevant

Affable Misanthrope

mea_gulpa

Question : how many tests India is doing in comparison to UK? 1) If we tested one million people on Jan 1...we will have one million negative results assuming (100%

Gbénró Adégbolá ن

GbenroAdegbola

Apparently there’s an ‘epidemic’ of Vit. D deficiency in most white collared Nigerians. This is very strange because sun ray is the most efficient catalyst of its production by the

Principles of Marketing

Principles00

High leverage moves only.Figure out the 20% that's driving 80% of your sales.Don't waste time optimizing elements that don't move the needle.It's easy to get lost with all the moving

Talia Ringer

TaliaRinger

Hypothetical: It's July. The government has allowed you to go back to work for a while, but cases have surged again. They say they still don't have enough capacity to

foone

Foone

Yesterday I had a lot of retweets and reddit posts and such for playing Doom on a pregnancy test.But as I explained then, it wasn't really PLAYING on a pregnancy

SophieB 🦦💟🦔

Holmes84Sophb

To celebrate 400 followers (thank you everyone, ), here is a thread of Benedict as the colours of Benedict's reagent - the biochemical test for reducing sugars. I am a

Privacy Matters 💙

PrivacyMatters

The ICO advice https://ico.org.uk/global/data-protection-and-coronavirus-information-hub/contact-tracing-protecting-customer-and-visitor-details/ does not comment on which lawful basis would apply nor does it comment on individual rights. I

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

In the press conference Prof Van Tam admitted that circuit breakers work less well as cases rise. And that cases are rising in every region. That's why SAGE argued for

Skye

luminousskyettv

Shaming people on Twitch who look at their numbers objectively, by telling them that "people aren't numbers", is incredibly toxic.Acknowledge that Twitch's algorithm works against you, and growing your audience

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nixonwaters

day 1 of asking @dongkiz_dy to take the mbti test day 2 of asking @dongkiz_dy to take the mbti test {end of thread}

Vidya

VidyaKrishnan

When rest of India was being lectured about social distancing, BJP toppled MP govt to swear in SS Chouhan, in front a packed RajBhavan-- well- like clockwork 2 weeks later-CM

Kyle Smith (he/him/his)

ElkySmith

Interesting 1996 paper by Fulcher and Bamford on testing, standards and the law:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0346251X96000401 They ask, "if a candidate for a British examination were to get a grade which was l

Abdu Sharkawy

SharkawyMD

Lots of confusion about when and who to test for Covid-19 and if a negative test means you're free and clear to see your grandma or meet up for a