Originally Posted by
sinkov
So you have no idea 59, how many are false positives, no problem, neither do I. But, if you're running a testing system, it goes without saying that you want the results to be as accurate as possible. It's not possible to be 100% accurate, but it helps enormously if you know the % of false positive tests your method incurs. Hancock was asked about this a while ago now, he said he thought it was under 1%, but he wasn't sure, it could have been over. Since then nothing, no one seems to know, maybe the government don't want it to be known, maybe they don't know themselves, whatever, but if you're going to publish the number of positive tests without quantifying, or being unable to quantify, how many are false positives, then ipso facto, those numbers are meaningless.