False positive screening tests indicate incorrectly that healthy people have a disease. False negative tests falsely reassure some people who have the disease that they are healthy.
A test with poor sensitivity will produce more false negatives and miss more disease while a test with poor specificity will produce more false positives and label more healthy people as diseased.
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