How to Use false positive in a Sentence

false positive

noun

• The high false positive rate persuaded many to go ahead and have the colonoscopy in the first place.
  — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2024
• One of the most promising tests has a false positive rate of less than one percent.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 18 June 2024
• Most of the returns, in other words, are false positives.
  — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• And a lot of the time, the signatures are really non-unique and there’s going to be a lot of false positives.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024
• The bug increased the false positive rate from the normal limit of 5 percent to up to 70 percent.
  — Mikkel Krenchel, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2016
• 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
• With a 10% false positive rate, that means that more people had a false positive than a true result, Hochster said.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 2 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Research shows that false positives are more common in women age 40 to 49 than in older women.
  — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 3 May 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 costs and rates of false positives can be reduced, the scans someday may find a place on a list of preventive care recommendations.
  — Lisa Doggett, NPR, 18 June 2024
• There is also the risk of false positive tests driving unnecessary use of health care services.
  — Charlotte Hu, Vox, 4 June 2024
• 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
• It is known to give false positives for other substances, including food fibers and minerals found in household goods such as paint.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
• 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
• Are errors more likely to result in false positives or false negatives?
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024