#Specificity

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

1/7 Serosurveys! We scientists are quibbling about specificity, but what do these study results mean for the general public?My take on what serosurveys can and cannot tell us. 2/7 Emerging

MauricedeSaxe

SaxeMauricede

UX 101UX is the abbreviation for user experience. I will give you the basics of UX, which apply to anyone who may build a website. web app, mobile app. But

Tyler Black, MD

tylerblack32

Positive predictive and negative predictive value are very important concepts in any screening test. I'll quickly break it down for everyone./1https://twitter.com/choo_ek/status/1260603128396697600 Let's say that a test is 90% specific (10%

Brian

fullmealcereal

Dk Metcalf is an elite athlete. I think a lot of people underestimate sprinters though. He's listed at 6'4'' 229lbs. He's large, but Usain Bolt 6'5" 207lbs, Asafa Powell 6'3"

Jason L. Salemi, PhD ☕

JasonSalemi

An epidemiologist's primer to DIAGNOSTIC TESTING- sensitivity & specificity- positive and negative predictive values- likelihood ratios- pre- and post-test probabilitiesSound familiar?Sound really confusing?In this I'll try to t

winnie

winnie4prez

why you don’t need to know everything in order to know something:according to Aristotle, some (ie Speusippus) thought that in order to know something, you had to know what makes

Dr David Robert Grimes

drg1985

Exasperating to read hot takes on how testing ought to be done or why it's apparently bad by people who quite clearly don't know first thing about how screening works.

VyceVictus

VyceVictus

Great recap of incredible art & artists this year. Its really been something special to see that by showing the specificity of their struggles and their victories as Black people

automnia

aut_omnia

The Premier League currently plans to restart in June. Its strategy is dangerously negligent, and poses a serious threat to the health of the players, the staff and anyone in

Sumit Middha

bioinfosm

Great to see @MayoClinic work on #COVID2019 with this antibody IgG IgM test coming up .. seems to have @US_FDA EUA done with Cellexhttps://www.biospace.com/article/fda-approves-1st-covid-19-antibody-test/?TrackID=16 #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 for good measur

Mister Badger

TooBadger

Why I'm gender critical (a thread). When considering a child's 'gender identity', the problem is not the child - the problem is assigning inherent gender-specificity to certain activities . This

Matthew Noah Smith

MattNoahSmith

This is a tweet thread about rapid testing. It is meant to highlight something that most people, including most journalists and doctors, who are publicly skeptical about rapid tests seem

Dr Unburnt🔥Poorman

DrPoorman

It's time for my seasonal teaching on flu, antivirals, and what they teach us about the principles of conservative prescribing! 1/ Which of these is more accurate when diagnosing flu

tillery

tilleryjohnson

SPEC WRITING MISTAKES, A THREAD PT 1:Are you writing a spec for one of the writing programs this year? Last year I read 100+ submissions and noticed some patterns. All

Tamara Cofman Wittes

tcwittes

Soon-to-be-grads are starting to network for their job searches. It's really tough to do this in a pandemic, & I wish them the best! One thing that means a lot

DocBurke

burke_doc

We are being inundated with questions regarding COVID-19 antibody testing (blood test) and "Immunity Passports". - This is an evolving science but to understand the potential benefits we must understand