In a letter to the agency, a group of experts called on the commissioner to revoke its approval, saying the test doesn't work.
  • TacoNot@mander.xyz
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    7 months ago

    SOLVD Health said in its application that AvertD had demonstrated a sensitivity of about 82% and a specificity of about 79%.

    Those numbers suggest that roughly 1 in 5 results would be false negatives and roughly 1 in 5 would be false positives.

    That doesn’t seem very good

    • jadero@mander.xyz
      1·
      7 months ago

      Total error rate is about 2/5? That’s barely better than a coin flip.

      “Oh yes, I just got tested for my potential to become an opioid addict. Give me a second to flip a coin: heads I read the report, tails I toss it in the recycle bin.”