June 13, 2014
How useful is public health screening?
Thomas Lumley’s latest New Zealand Listener column points out that while people love the sound of public screening for disease, it has a significant problem: Most people who are screened aren’t sick. And that’s when the spectre of false positives arises …
Read the column here: Failing the screen test
Atakohu Middleton is an Auckland journalist with a keen interest in the way the media uses/abuses data. She happens to be married to a statistician. See all posts by Atakohu Middleton »