Refer to the sample data for preemployment drug screening sh

Refer to the sample data for pre-employment drug screening shown below. If one of the subjects is randomly selected, what is the probability that the test result is a false positive? Who would suffer from a false positive result? Why?

Solution

probability of a false positive result = 1 / 88 = 0.011

The employee would suffer from the false positive result as he would not be able to bag the job for which he came.