A popular term for any intangible factor that affects the performance of a particular test, making it difficult to obtain consistent results; certain immunoassays—e.g., tissue staining by immunoperoxidase methods—may yield inconsistent results in relatively inexperienced hands, due, some might say, to a ‘magic factor’

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