How to Use false positive in a Sentence

false positive

noun

• One of the most promising tests has a false positive rate of less than one percent.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 18 June 2024
• Most of the returns, in other words, are false positives.
  — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• And a lot of the time, the signatures are really non-unique and there’s going to be a lot of false positives.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024
• The bug increased the false positive rate from the normal limit of 5 percent to up to 70 percent.
  — Mikkel Krenchel, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2016
• Carlos Duarte: There’s a lot of false negatives and a lot of false positives.
  — Joseph Polidoro, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2023
• What’s the risk if the model had false positives, or false negatives?
  — Brittany Trang, STAT, 22 May 2023
• Ten of the brochures never mention that a false positive can happen.
  — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2022
• There is always the chance that the test will reveal a false positive or negative.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 26 July 2023
• The fact the sub was going to explore the wreckage of the Titanic also means there may be lots of false positives on any sonar scans.
  — WIRED, 20 June 2023
• Those are the various false positives and false negatives that would be part of the risk model.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Though their tests were later revealed to be false positives.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
• With a 10% false positive rate, that means that more people had a false positive than a true result, Hochster said.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 2 Aug. 2024
• For Gal, the benefit of knowing and the cost of monitoring outweighs the risk of false positives.
  — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• Tests with low specificity are more likely to show a false positive.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 22 Jan. 2024
• The Apple Watch version, along with car crash detection, had led to some false positives, with the watch dialing 911 when the users weren't hurt.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2023
• If, on the other hand, a test returns positive and the value rises, a false positive is less likely.
  — Mara Buchbinder, STAT, 29 Oct. 2023
• Luminar will need to make sure that its system isn’t triggered by false positives.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 9 Jan. 2024
• Research shows that false positives are more common in women age 40 to 49 than in older women.
  — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 3 May 2024
• 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
• Users soon decided the detection was a false positive triggered by a glitch in the SentinelOne product.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
• This can cause the AI to give false positives or, worse, ignore attacker intrusion.
  — Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• If costs and rates of false positives can be reduced, the scans someday may find a place on a list of preventive care recommendations.
  — Lisa Doggett, NPR, 18 June 2024
• There is also the risk of false positive tests driving unnecessary use of health care services.
  — Charlotte Hu, Vox, 4 June 2024
• If not caught, these can cause false positives: things at first assumed to be real but that can take exhaustive efforts to discover are not.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 May 2023
• It is known to give false positives for other substances, including food fibers and minerals found in household goods such as paint.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
• All tests carry a risk of false positive or negative results.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• This makes these false positives relatively easy to spot.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• The test had a specificity of 93% for cancer detection, meaning there’s a 7% chance that a patient receives a false positive result.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 30 May 2023
• The problem is, if abnormal DNA is detected, a colonoscopy is required to confirm the finding—and with a false positive rate of about 14% for home tests, people may wind up having the more invasive procedure anyway.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
• But while detection techniques continue to evolve, these kinds of tools are generally based on unproven theories that haven't been shown to be reliable in any broad studies, making the prospect of false positives/negatives a real risk.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024