Week 6 of 22
SEPTEMBER 21 TO 24
Fiction. No real student, family or grade appears.
False results. A false negative sends someone home contagious. A false positive treats someone who is well. You cannot eliminate both.
Positive control, negative control, blank. If the negative control comes up positive, every result on that plate is meaningless.
Actual plate, actual pipettes, actual colour change. My hands were not steady and my volumes were not consistent for the first row, which you can see in the data.
MR. MENDOZA
Good. You caught it. The dangerous version is the group that never ran a control.
Sensitivity is the share of people who have it that the test catches. Specificity is the share of people who do not have it that the test correctly clears.
Plate layout, raw absorbance, standard curve, unknowns, and a limitations paragraph about my unsteady first row.