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What (who) is misidentify - definition
misidentify
[m?s??'d?nt?f??]
¦ verb (misidentifies, misidentifying, misidentified) identify incorrectly.
Derivatives
misidentification -f?'ke??(?)n noun
Delusional misidentification syndrome
Delusional misidentification syndrome is an umbrella term, introduced by Christodoulou (in his book The Delusional Misidentification Syndromes, Karger, Basel, 1986) for a group of delusional disorders that occur in the context of mental and neurological illness. They all involve a belief that the identity of a person, object, or place has somehow changed or has been altered.
Mirrored-self misidentification
Mirrored-self misidentification is the delusional belief that one's reflection in the mirror is another person – typically a younger or second version of one's self, a stranger, or a relative. This delusion occurs most frequently in patients with dementia and an affected patient maintains the ability to recognize others' reflections in the mirror.
Examples of use of misidentify
1. "Like other data–mining applications, the ADVISE tool could misidentify or erroneously associate an individual with undesirable activity such as fraud, crime or terrorism," the GAO warned.
2. You only see this ambiguity when you see something briefly enough to misidentify it — like when that rock in the middle of the dark road suddenly turns out to be a neighbour‘s cat.
3. Both men seemed well equipped in terms of facts and figures –– especially, as one would expect, dollar figures –– and neither made an outrageous blunder, although McCain did misidentify the new president of Pakistan.
4. Miller‘s account of agreeing to misidentify a source, her murky reference to a "security clearance" that she surely should not have had, and her failure to accept supervision from or to share vital information with her editors strike at the system of checks and balances that credible journalism requires.
5. Pilot tests of the program were quietly suspended in March after Congress‘ Government Accountability Office warned that the ADVISE tool could misidentify or erroneously associate an individual with undesirable activity such as fraud, crime or terrorism.‘‘ Since then, Homeland Security‘s inspector general and the DHS privacy office discovered that tests used live data about real people rather than made–up data for one to two years without meeting privacy requirements.