A Diagnostic Test with a Very High Sensitivity but Very

Multiple Choice

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.