How to Use false negative in a Sentence
false negative
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So the cost of a false negative is much higher in medicine.
—Abc News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
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The Simple 2 test may give a false negative test, the FDA said.
—Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 22 Nov. 2023
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Carlos Duarte: There’s a lot of false negatives and a lot of false positives.
—Joseph Polidoro, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2023
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What’s the risk if the model had false positives, or false negatives?
—Brittany Trang, STAT, 22 May 2023
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Those are the various false positives and false negatives that would be part of the risk model.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
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Doing this can dilute hCG levels in your urine and lead to a false negative result.
—Nicole Harris, Parents, 2 Aug. 2023
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The tests also showed false negative results in some samples that had extremely high amounts of cells in them.
—Abdullahi Tsanni, STAT, 21 June 2023
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Then a fourth experiment failed to find any organic compounds in the soil, a result that may have been a false negative.
—Marissa Grunes, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
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Nucleic acid tests are faster and cheaper, but are less reliable and prone to false negatives.
—Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 11 Aug. 2023
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Your test may have given you a false negative, which are far more common than false positives, experts say.
—Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 9 Sep. 2023
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And that may mean that any children who received false negative results have already been retested.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
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As many as 15% of negative stress tests are false negatives, meaning that there really are blockages, but the stress test comes out normal.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2023
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My question is, can the dexamethasone injection affect the lab test and give a false negative result?
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 5 May 2023
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The necessary chemicals are in short supply, and the fastest tests—those that produce results in under 15 minutes—struggle with false negatives.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2020
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Since the real world and the data that comes from it are messy, there are four possible outcomes of your model: a true positive, a false positive, a true negative, and a false negative.
—Matt Ford, Ars Technica, 22 June 2022
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The screening questions are meant to weed out potential donors who might have very recently contracted any of these viruses and whose blood might therefore test false negative.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2023
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Testing too late or too soon may result in a false negative, unknowingly causing infected people to spread the virus to others.
—Ashley Abramson, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
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This includes checking the expiration dates to avoid a false positive or false negative result.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 11 May 2023
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These testing errors can be simply from not following the instructions precisely and could result in a false negative.
—Maggie O'Neill, Health, 13 Oct. 2023
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After noticing herself gain weight despite playing 30 to 35 minutes per game, Hebard took a pregnancy test only to receive a false negative.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2023
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Meanwhile, rapid tests still oftentimes provide a false negative if taken too soon after infection.
—Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 17 July 2023
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For trans women, estrogen use could cause overall lower levels of PSA, making the screening tool even less effective and potentially increasing the risk of false negatives.
—Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2023
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False positive results are rare, says Dr. Dweck, but false negative results can definitely occur.
—Sarah Bradley, Parents, 2 Feb. 2024
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The analysis is susceptible to false negatives — some products of living systems, such as Ardbeg single malt scotch, have AIs suggesting a nonliving origin.
—Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2023
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Most important, experts note, is getting routine screenings—although, even then, mammograms do not detect about one in eight breast cancers, and other measures are needed to address initial false negative results.
—Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 29 Aug. 2023
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Their limited exposure during training sessions can lead to false negatives or inconsistencies when attempting to locate Delta-8 THC.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
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False positives, false negatives and uncertain results about genetic anomalies have sometimes led to devastating consequences for families, the investigation found.
—Anna Clark, ProPublica, 14 June 2023
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Our models generated predictions with 80 percent lower false positive and false negative rates compared to conventional predictions from geological maps.
—Josh Goldman, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2023
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