Question

Olympic athletes are tested to see if they are using illegal performance-enhancing drugs. suppose that urine samples are taken and analyzed and the rate of false positive results is 1%. suppose also that it is too expensive to refine the method to reduce the rate of false possible results. we do not want to accuse innocent people of using illegal drugs. what can you do to reduce the rate of false accusations even though the test always has a false positive rate of 1%. (select all that apply.)

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

Since we are not able to refine the method and therefore would continue to have a false positive which here is 1% meaning that for a 100 people tested we would have a chance that one person may have a false result- be innocent but have result guilty, to have less chance of a false positive we could collect another sample for each individual who has result guilty and test this group again. This way we would have reduced false positive if any.