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You can’t directly calculate both sensitivity and specificity using equal numbers of positives and negatives groups unless the actual population has that ratio.

A completely random test given equal populations results in 50% accuracy and 50% specificity. Things don’t look nearly as good if only 1% of the actual population has the condition.




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