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Sensitivity vs Specificity

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Answer: 8

20 people are truly diseased. Your test has a SENSITIVITY of 60%. So, as sensitivity detects the diseased people, you test will detect 60% of the diseased population. 60% of 20 is 12. It will therefore NOT detect 8 people. There will be 8 undetected diseased people; there will be 8 false negatives.

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