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!! This page says 80% SENSITIVE for appendicitis, while the appendicitis wikipedia page says 80% SPECIFIC for appendicitis (being basically opposite statistical terms) - which is it? - I do not know the percentage of sensitivity or specificity of anorexia in terms of appendicitis, but sensitivity and specificity are not opposite statistical terms. Sensitivity is a term to describe how likely a test would detect a thing, while specificity deals with how accurate the test is. Things can be sensitive, specific, neither, or both. I would suspect the 80% would be sensitive, because most people with severe abdominal pain won't want to eat, while there are lost of things that can cause lack of appetite. D.c.camero (talk) 16:58, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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 == Possibly wrong information ==
 !! This page says 80% SENSITIVE for appendicitis, while the appendicitis wikipedia page says 80% SPECIFIC for appendicitis (being basically opposite statistical terms) - which is it?
+- I do not know the percentage of sensitivity or specificity of anorexia in terms of appendicitis, but sensitivity and specificity are not opposite statistical terms. Sensitivity is a term to describe how likely a test would detect a thing, while specificity deals with how accurate the test is. Things can be sensitive, specific, neither, or both. I would suspect the 80% would be sensitive, because most people with severe abdominal pain won't want to eat, while there are lost of things that can cause lack of appetite. [[User:D.c.camero|D.c.camero]] ([[User talk:D.c.camero|talk]]) 16:58, 3 July 2022 (UTC)