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A Theranos Whistleblower

A Slight Change of Plans

What Is This Process of Deleashing Outliers?

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Sometimes when the thernos devices weren't showing good accuracy, people would start doing this process called deleating outliers. "That's not what an outlier issotes. That is bad science," he says. The solution that they came up with was essentially to get another lower level lab associate who had about maybe a year more experience to me. She looked at the data and she deleted the outliers for this and managed to get the quality controls the past.

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