A diagnostic test with a very high sensitivity but very low specificity has the following problem:
A) It will miss a big proportion of true cases (label them as negatives).
B) It will correctly identify all negative cases.
C) It will label a big proportion of healthy people as sick (false-positives).
D) It will be very expensive to administer.
E) Specificity is the single most important characteristic of a test.

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A test with high sensitivity will be able to identify most of the cases.However,if its specificity is low,a big proportion of healthy people will be also labeled as positives (false-positives).

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