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Only if the measures for an individual are uncorrelated, which there’s no reason to assume.

It needs to be <= 0.01% false positive for each individual author. If it’s just that 0.01% of all tests are false positive, that leaves the possibility than a given individual might have anywhere up to 100% false positives.



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