#Specificity

Sanah Bhimani

SanahBhimani

Okay I know I have a small following but if even 1 of you shared this information/thread, it'd SOO be worth it. Biochemists from my chemical biologist best friend's grad

Roger Galligan

RogerGalligan

More clarity on False Positives . My calcs w/ 99.25% Specificity (& assume 80% sensitivity & prevalance of 2.2% in tested cohort) -> Positive Predictive Value of 70.58% and Positive

maris

marisonte

queer is a vague word. if your identity is 'fluid' or complex or confusing, that can be pretty comforting! but if you have a firm sense of a specific identity,

Media Missionary

TimotheusPope

For the record, in regard to situations like Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Christian Cooper, Aeneas Hawkins (who posted recently about his experience on Twitter), etc. please change the

James K.A. Smith

james_ka_smith

While the pandemic is pushing churches to forms of digital/remote worship, you’d expect this to foster disembodiment, giving license for further “ex-carnation” as Charles Taylor puts it. But I’m seeing

The End Times

TheAgeofShoddy

As the debate about experts and whether to trust them rolls on, one suggestion on a way out of this situation: specificity. The more that experts make clear the specific

Caffeinated Otter

caffeinedOtter

"'The TRPG industry' is not rotten to the core, [the D&D core team is]."I like the specificity of "the D&D core team"; really selling the idea that the industry extends

Mary Robinette Kowal@🏡

MaryRobinette

You just don't get it, do you? A mini-lesson about specificity in dialogueEver feel like the words coming out of a character could belong to anyone? Like this?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KoKWf6pLs8 When we

Alex Selby

alexselby1770

The official coronavirus api has changed the way it reports LFD test (rapid test) results, and this presents a unique opportunity to measure how well these tests have been performing.

Eunnara Cho

EunnaraCho

Excited to share that our most recent paper has been published in the Archives of Toxicology and is now live! In this study, we developed and successfully validated an 81-gene

Justin Fox

foxjust

I had been struggling for a while to get my head around the argument, made by @BillHanage, @NateSilver538 and others on this website today, that antibody test results from places

Helen McClory

HelenMcClory

Subtweet about writing advice: you really need context of a specific text to give any advice that is meaningful For example, advice on metaphors (or similes). A weird sounding metaphor

ChristosArgyropoulos

ChristosArgyrop

Let's analyze the dialysis case from yesterday. We need to know : a) the SAR (Secondary Attack Rate) of COVID19 for household transmission (pt had largely sheltered in, so could

Crude Oil

FabMcDonalds

I am now a level 6 weeb on WaniKani. this means I am 10% of the way through. kind of. I'm behind on my lessons & I am really messing

saneeka

saneetarypad

"The essence of a principle is simplicity, universality, and specificity. It must be clear, broad enough to be comprehensive, yet specific enough to help us make everyday decisions. + Medicine

Emily Zanotti

emzanotti

POTATOES: the way MEN LOVE THEM. Springtime ways with ham. As opposed to other seasons of ham. FONDULOHA No. YES. There’s a reason people invented therapy in the 80s. And