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Comment by spider-mario on Fallacies as weak Bayesian evidence · 2021-10-31T22:38:54.145Z · LW · GW

its specificity is very low - equal to the prevalence rate of the disease.

It’s actually 0. The specificity of a test is the probability of a negative test given the absence of disease. Since the probability of a negative test is 0 in this example, it is also 0 given the absence of disease.