What are false positives?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

When getting a medical diagnosis, it's important to understand the terms. Negative is good, positive is bad, false positive is great in a way, but false negative is the worst. Learn all about false positives, when your tests indicate you have a disease...

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from House Stuffworks.com.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
0:43.4	I'm Josh Clark and those Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
0:46.2	It's just us.
0:48.4	There's no producer.
0:49.4	There's no guest producer.
0:50.4	There's no nothing.
0:52.6	It's a ghost in the chair.
0:54.6	Why is it, whenever we're in this room, just the two of us, I go back to elementary school
0:59.8	or middle school and feel like we should just start drinking whiskey or something.
1:04.8	Isn't that weird?
1:08.5	Yeah.
1:09.5	Well, I guess Jerry kind of provides like a teacher-like presence.
1:13.7	And I guess Noel is kind of like a substitute teacher-like presence.
1:17.0	So I didn't ever have the urge to drink whiskey in elementary school, but I can see where
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