specificity
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Sensitivity is how well a test identifies disease while specificity is how well it avoids false positives.
By examining evolutionary relationships between uracil sensors and related sensory domains, the team found that ligand specificity can change relatively easily over time.
From Science Daily
Sometimes you have to ask for what you want multiple times, with increasing specificity, even when the question is: What should I learn about AI to do my job better?
They reflect a growing appetite for specificity — and for the stories behind food.
From Salon
“We believe that for all creation, product and images, our touchpoint, our specificity, is to use incredible designers who bring their point of view,” Pavlovsky said.
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