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I have a question on probability. If I take a medical screening test that is 90% accurate at detecting cancer but I take it twice what then is the accuracy of having taken that test twice.
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That's often not the best measure. For instance, for a rare condition affecting one in a million people, you could reach 99.9999% accuracy by giving a negative result every single time.