On: Identifying Autism from Neural Representations of Social Interactions

[nicklo]

Yeah I wonder what the false positive rate is. Didn't see any mention of it though.

[duwease → nicklo]

I think it's just the headline that's misleading, the abstract says quite clearly: "Moreover, machine learning algorithms classified individuals as autistic or control with 97% accuracy from their fMRI neurocognitive markers."

The "or control" doesn't tell you exactly what the false positive rate is, but at least it sets the upper bound at 3%.

[arjie → duwease]

No reason to reverse engineer. The paper has all the information you need. One false negative in the cross validation. No false positives.