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> are just introducing greater inaccuracy

What makes you say that? This is exactly the sort of scenario where punting interpretation off to a simple algorithm is probably more accurate than leaving it up to untrained humans.




I read a comment in a reddit thread and they said the "pro-tip" was to take a picture of the pregnancy test and up the contrast to be able to better interpret results. So a less wasteful idea would be a companion app to help with that process vs. more electronics in a landfill. (Although obvious privacy implications exist).


It might prevent false positive, but it can lead to false negative.

See for example https://www.reddit.com/r/TFABLinePorn/comments/4pxghm/confli...


That could happen with any two tests. That second test is really faint. At first I thought "Ok, so they're both negative, so what?"

Not to mention, false negatives are far more common than false positives. If you have a false positive, then there's typically some odd health concern with the person.




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