• enkers
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    7 months ago

    since people tend to assume paternity tests are infallible

    This specific instance is particularly egregious, but…

    They shouldn’t be doing this regardless. Most medical tests have a false positive rate, and I suspect nearly all paternity tests do as well. When interpreting medical results having a decent understanding of Bayesian statistics is very useful. If you don’t, you should be asking your doctor to help you interpret results.