5 ms·

"Pregnancy tests are 99% accurate in the lab, 75% accurate in the wild due to misreads- mistakes which are highly dependent on education and socioeconomic statu

"Pregnancy tests are 99% accurate in the lab, 75% accurate in the wild due to misreads- mistakes which are highly dependent on education and socioeconomic status. No, it is not stupid or wasteful to use a hardware interface to help women with this." https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1301786032136835072 https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/130178603213683507...

srtjstjsj 6y ago
That thread (by someone injecting racism) says nothing about the accuracy of machine tests in the wild, nor whether the errors are false positive or false negative.
apta 6y ago
> White college-educated women Had to turn it to racism, not surprised.