In diagnostic research, sensitivity and specificity are interdependent and must be reported together.

“that's exactly right and that's exactly and i think i agree with you that's a great example um to explain uh how that works and actually that explains a lot of what happens in the in the in the research diagnostic research field in general um that you know you try to push sensitivity but that never is meaningful to report if you don't also report the specificity to look at specificity because it's kind of like a yin and yang if you you push on one the other you know usually one goes up most of the time the other goes down”