Hey Guys
I can't grasp the reasoning behind the following question.
Appendicitis (inflammation of the appendix) is potentially fatal; consequently, patients with symptoms strongly suggesting appendicitis almost always have their appendix removed. The appropriate surgery is low-risk but performed unnecessarily in about 20% of all cases. A newly developed internal scan for appendicitis is highly accurate, producing two misdiagnoses for every 98 correct diagnoses. Clearly, using this test, doctors can largely avoid unnecessary removals of the appendix without, however, performing any fewer necessary one than before, since...
- the patients who are correctly diagnosed with this test as not having appendicitis invariably have medical conditions that are much less serious than appendicitis.
- the misdiagnoses produced by this test are always instances of attributing to someone who does not, in fact, have it
- all of the patients who are diagnosed with this test as having appendicitis do, in fact, have appendicitis
- every patient who is diagnosed with this test as having appendicitis has more than one of the symptoms generally associated with appendicitis
- the only patients who are diagnosed using this test are patients who lack one or more of the symptoms that are generally associated with appendicitis
Can anybody see the hidden clues?
Cheers
Lukas
I can't grasp the reasoning behind the following question.
Appendicitis (inflammation of the appendix) is potentially fatal; consequently, patients with symptoms strongly suggesting appendicitis almost always have their appendix removed. The appropriate surgery is low-risk but performed unnecessarily in about 20% of all cases. A newly developed internal scan for appendicitis is highly accurate, producing two misdiagnoses for every 98 correct diagnoses. Clearly, using this test, doctors can largely avoid unnecessary removals of the appendix without, however, performing any fewer necessary one than before, since...
- the patients who are correctly diagnosed with this test as not having appendicitis invariably have medical conditions that are much less serious than appendicitis.
- the misdiagnoses produced by this test are always instances of attributing to someone who does not, in fact, have it
- all of the patients who are diagnosed with this test as having appendicitis do, in fact, have appendicitis
- every patient who is diagnosed with this test as having appendicitis has more than one of the symptoms generally associated with appendicitis
- the only patients who are diagnosed using this test are patients who lack one or more of the symptoms that are generally associated with appendicitis
Can anybody see the hidden clues?
Cheers
Lukas
