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> The problem is, it's not that simple. Biological variation and lab procedure variation and just plain dumb bad luck makes it so that any lab test should only be considered a single datapoint. To be taken seriously, but not to be taken as "the answer" in and of itself.

And even if the results are accurate it's often not useful. See the amount of over-diagnosis and over-treatment that results from too much testing.



Indeed, and never forget the false positive paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox




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