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False negative

A result in which a classifier or test reports that a condition is absent when it is present, for example a system that reports no distress in a person who is distressed. The rate of false negatives trades off against the rate of false positives as a decision threshold is moved. For states without a clear ground truth, such as emotions, even estimating this rate depends on which criterion is accepted as correct.

Where the site uses it

Instrumented emotion: why the telemetry here is conceptual
Affective computing promises to infer emotion as if it were a system metric. The evidence on facial movements and autonomic signals, together with questions of consent, explains why every metric in this artifact is an artistic value.
Methods: signals, inference and the limits of detecting a state change
How one could reason about recording a catharsis-like change of state: signals, features, inference and context, baselines, self-report, error costs and ethics, and why every step stays uncertain. Nothing on this site measures anyone.