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What does 'false positive' mean? That it thinks it is someone else, or that it thinks it is a target of an investigation?
by Eisenstein 2y ago
What does 'false positive' mean? That it thinks it is someone else, or that it thinks it is a target of an investigation?
- TuringNYC 2y agoWhen the actual is negative but the inference is positive, rate of that. This is a very handy guide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_matrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_matrix
- Eisenstein 2y agoThat wasn't what I was asking. I was asking what the failure mode was.
- Sebb767 2y agoFalse positive would, in this case, mean wrongly identifying an unrelated person a the search target.