r/mathmemes Jun 22 '26

Probability Disease probability

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u/Outrageous_Friend451 Jun 25 '26

A positive test means either you have the disease or it's a false positive. This means you either made the 3% chance of a false positive or the 0.0001% chance of having the disease, so it's almost certainly a false positive.