True and False Positives

True and False Positives

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  • Number of questions: 10
  • Time limit: 20 minutes
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What is the definition of a true positive? (e.g., is a smoke alarm going off because it detected smoke?)

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What is the definition of a false positive? (e.g., did a smoke alarm get triggered even though there's no smoke?)

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What's a simple name or synonym for a true positive?

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What's a simple name or a synonym for a false positive?

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A smoke alarm is triggered in the middle of the night when it detects fire or smoke. This is an example of:

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A fire alarm is triggered when there is no fire or smoke. This is an example of:

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A company is running a functional test on new glass break sensors for their home security system. Test result is pasted below. How many tests are true positives?

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A user is trying to unlock his phone with his face. When is it a true positive?

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A user is trying to unlock his phone with his face. When is it a false positive?

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Driving a Tesla Model X on the road with the lane departure warning, 2 out of 1,000 times, the car issued a warning even when the car stayed within its lane: so a lane departure warning was correctly issued 998 times. But 1 out of 10,000 times, there was no warning when the vehicle drifted out of a lane. How many true and false positives occurred? Assume a positive scenario is a warning issued when a car departs from its lane.

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