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The huge difference is that the LA one claims to have tested a random sample of people while the Stanford one did not.


Some of the same authors, possible/likely they are using the same test.


That isn't huge. The biggest issue with the Stanford study was that they didn't take into account the Confidence Intervals of the Specificity.


Doesn't sound like that is a sufficient difference, however, if they also screwed up the stats and the analysis.




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