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Appreciate the need for specificity and relate this to the action of the above

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Above what ?

Specificity:
If a person does not have the disease how often will the test be negative (true negative rate)>
In other terms, if the test result for a highly specific test is positive you can be nearly certain that they actually have the disease.
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