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Sense and sensitivity: can an inaccurate test be better than no test at all?
- Correspondence to Dr Jonathan Pugh, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; jonathan.pugh{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk
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Sense and sensitivity: can an inaccurate test be better than no test at all?
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- Received January 14, 2021
- Revised March 11, 2021
- Accepted March 17, 2021
- First published April 5, 2021.
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April 25, 2022
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