How to Use false positive in a Sentence

false positive

noun

• Most of the returns, in other words, are false positives.
  — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Carlos Duarte: There’s a lot of false negatives and a lot of false positives.
  — Joseph Polidoro, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2023
• What’s the risk if the model had false positives, or false negatives?
  — Brittany Trang, STAT, 22 May 2023
• Ten of the brochures never mention that a false positive can happen.
  — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2022
• There is always the chance that the test will reveal a false positive or negative.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 26 July 2023
• The fact the sub was going to explore the wreckage of the Titanic also means there may be lots of false positives on any sonar scans.
  — WIRED, 20 June 2023
• Those are the various false positives and false negatives that would be part of the risk model.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Though their tests were later revealed to be false positives.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
• For Gal, the benefit of knowing and the cost of monitoring outweighs the risk of false positives.
  — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• Tests with low specificity are more likely to show a false positive.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 22 Jan. 2024
• The Apple Watch version, along with car crash detection, had led to some false positives, with the watch dialing 911 when the users weren't hurt.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2023
• If, on the other hand, a test returns positive and the value rises, a false positive is less likely.
  — Mara Buchbinder, STAT, 29 Oct. 2023
• Luminar will need to make sure that its system isn’t triggered by false positives.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 9 Jan. 2024
• Your test may have given you a false negative, which are far more common than false positives, experts say.
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 9 Sep. 2023
• Users soon decided the detection was a false positive triggered by a glitch in the SentinelOne product.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
• This can cause the AI to give false positives or, worse, ignore attacker intrusion.
  — Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• If not caught, these can cause false positives: things at first assumed to be real but that can take exhaustive efforts to discover are not.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 May 2023
• All tests carry a risk of false positive or negative results.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• This makes these false positives relatively easy to spot.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• The test had a specificity of 93% for cancer detection, meaning there’s a 7% chance that a patient receives a false positive result.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 30 May 2023
• For example, systems used to evaluate chest X-rays, while able to find anomalies that humans might miss, also have been shown to kick up many more false positives.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2024
• But officers were worried the dog’s fatigue yielded a false positive.
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
• The benefits of earlier breast cancer detection would balance out any harms from false positives due to the dense breast tissue in this group, the researchers noted.
  — Ambar Castillo, STAT, 19 Apr. 2023
• Even if the lead test kits the union used had produced a false positive, Kelley said, the sandblasting and now water-blasting is sending contaminants into the air and the streets, with the public unaware of the hazards.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• The number of mammograms a typical woman received tripled, as did the number of false positive readings.
  — Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2023
• The process has been challenging, with many false positives from fog, haze, dust kicked up from tractors, and steam from geothermal plants, according to Ethan Higgins, a chief architect of the software.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2023
• But some experts warn that mass testing of average-risk healthy people who are not showing symptoms could lead to false positive results, doing more harm than good.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
• Weiner agreed, adding that screening everybody who wishes to play team sports is not the best approach and could lead to false positives, creating even more anxiety for parents and kids.
  — Akshay Syal, M.d., NBC News, 25 July 2023
• But geneticists, aware of the tests’ false positives and negatives and of the prevalence of chromosomal diversity, were alarmed.
  — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023
• Experts say at-home tests sold in the U.S. are only intended to collect nasal specimens, and swabbing your stool can lead to false positive or negative results.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 6 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024