alt Hacker NewsWhat does 'false positive' mean? That it thinks it is someone else, or that it thinks it is a target of an investigation?
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Sebb767 • 12/09/2024
False positive would, in this case, mean wrongly identifying an unrelated person a the search target.
When 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