Just a quick message about your test results, so as not to keep you waiting.
"False alarm, Mr. Singer — your test results weren't lost, as it turns out.
But, to be perfectly frank, your test results are very worrisome.
"They said, 'Your test results came back, and you're H.I.V. positive,' " Mr. Colt said.
I don't usually give a diagnosis over the phone, but you certainly sound healthy, no matter how deathly ill your test results might indicate that you are.
So I'm just going to let them play through while I turn to the important subject of what your test results are telling me.
"Hello, Mr. Singer, this is your physician, Dr. Morris Abravenel, calling with your test results, and I'm just as glad, quite frankly, not to find you in.
So what I was assuming were your test results was actually this patient's autopsy report, and that accounts for my rather grim prognosis.
To do that, you need training data: 10,000 people where you know for sure if they are suspects, to compare your test results against.
Here's the thing: beware of basing assumptions on tests using small sample sizes and always remove outliers (such as the £5,000 response to a £50 ask) from your test results.
Without these benefits, what top candidate would opt to teach, at the risk of being fired if your test results are lower than another teacher's — not taking into account, of course, the myriad differences among some 28 to 30 students?
