Future Research: Psychological

• Compare clinicians’ preferences for descriptions of test dependency as:

  • correlations of errors
  • contingent sensitivities and specificities

• Compare clinicians’ diagnostic accuracy if provided with the two types of description

• Do physicians have accurate intuitions about the correlations between two tests’ false positives, or false negatives?

  • Can they be trained to think in these terms?

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