Whiteboard interviews have a very high false negative rate (rejecting people who are good), but they also have a low false positive rate (hiring people who are not good).
On what basis is this statement made? No study or source appears to be cited. The specific false negative and false positive rates are not given. Also, what exactly is the definition of "good" used?
I am quite interested in the false positive rate which can be computed by correlating performance reviews with interview performance.
Isn't it more likely that they were correctly rejected multiple times and just got lucky enough to squeak through one time?
You would still be excluding all the false negatives making it kind of relative performance of interview survivors. Meaning that you won't have anything to compare your false positive rate to proclaim it as low or as high.