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False Positives

'How good is our intuition when it comes to conditional probability?' The False Positive Paradox is a good, if not somewhat alarming example of counterintuitive Probability. Very few tests are 100% effective and as such errors occur. What's surprising is the impact these errors can apparently have. In this exercise there are data and statistics to help understand this paradox along with some news articles and...

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