How likely is it that you have this disease?!
Question: Imagine there is a disease that affects one in 10,000 people. If you have it, it is completely lethal.
You read about this disease in the newspaper and hear that there is a test available, so you go to the doctor. He tells you that the test is 99% accurate - that is, 99% of people who DO have the disease will get a positive result and 99% of people who DON'T have the disease will get a negative result.
So you take the test and go home.
A few days later the test results come back and it's the news you've been dreading... the results are positive!
You're very worried! And you're quite right to be, aren't you!
How likely is it that you ACTUALLY have the disease?
Answers: Imagine there is a disease that affects one in 10,000 people. If you have it, it is completely lethal.
You read about this disease in the newspaper and hear that there is a test available, so you go to the doctor. He tells you that the test is 99% accurate - that is, 99% of people who DO have the disease will get a positive result and 99% of people who DON'T have the disease will get a negative result.
So you take the test and go home.
A few days later the test results come back and it's the news you've been dreading... the results are positive!
You're very worried! And you're quite right to be, aren't you!
How likely is it that you ACTUALLY have the disease?
Modern day doctors are nothing more than legal drug dealers who dispense medication as if it were candy.
All you have to do to get anti-depressants is tell your licensed drug dealer that you have a case of the blues and he'll hook you right up.
Just look at all the poor kids being put on Ritalin just because they act like a kid and have parents who don't know that the main ingredient in Ritalin is Methamphetamine which is the same thing they use to make illegal street drugs such as crank.
It's no wonder so many kids turn to street drugs after they've been weaned from Ritalin.
I'd trust the man in the moon before I'd trust a doctor and believe anything they say let alone I have some kind of fatal and deadly disease.
Why, they're no different than lawyers and mechanics and dirty politicians all of whom are just in it for the money and you can't trust any of them especially doctors.
I think the odds of having a disease like that would be extremely slim and would not believe it even if a doctor said so.
it's 1/10,000 x 99%, ie 0.000099
99%?
Good luck on your test
Oh my I simply hate numbers...give me the disease quick...
well.lol
99%????????????
what's the joke in it?
50/50