False positives Perhaps less intuitively, when small low-powered studies do claim a discovery, that discovery is more likely to be false.
In a report last September it warned that one in seven posted online by the end of next year is likely to be false.
As for the commission's claim that the trade deal will produce growth and jobs, this is also likely to be false.
Media reports saying "studies show... ..... are most often giving us highly tentative results — indeed, results that are likely to be false.
Meanwhile, dozens of other people made similar claims, and Loftus became embroiled in an argument between therapists who believed that such claims should be believed, and the psychologists, who said that such memories are likely to be false.
"If the kid has been doing fine, I would advise parents not to get allergy testing, because the results are more likely to be false positives than true positives," Dr. Christakis said in an interview.
This story is likely to be false (see 2.1 above).
Thus, unexpected, published results are more likely to be false positives than they might appear.
If only there was a way to gauge which experiments were more likely to be false positives.
Specifically, it could be used to "gauge which experiments were more likely to be false positives," he continued.
