[Kelsey Toon]

I also struggled with this topic and found a video about this that helped me remember it. They talked about Sensitivity by relating it to “The Sensitive Scanner” aka the TSA scanners at airports that beep for a lot of people who don’t actually have weapons on them. So there are a lot of false positives. But if someone DOES have a weapon, it will always beep (true positive). So in that way, a test with high sensitivity is a great way to rule something OUT because there is very little chance someone who has the condition (a weapon in this case) would get a false negative.

High sensitivity = very few false negatives! Every time I see sensitivity I just picture the Sensitive Scanner as my visual.

I also think about pregnancy tests that advertise being “highly sensitive”. If you are pregnant, it would be basically impossible to NOT test positive. So it’s a good way to rule it out.

Hope that helps!
Kelsey

[Kelsey Toon]

Hi! I find Quizlet super helpful to learn material as well, so I searched on the website and found an account that made flashcards for all the NCS Advantage modules from last year! Here’s the link:

https://quizlet.com/user/KellyMitchell553/folders

Each folder has different modules in it. Hope that helps!

Kelsey

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