The real false positive rate for this test is not known yet.

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If one in 1, 000 people have a disease and the false-positive rate for a test is 5%, then the probability that a person testing positive has the disease is at most 2%.

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Now, a new studypublished in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that the rate of false-positive activations is higher than expected.

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