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We identified clear differences between the groups, both in their overt reporting of tinnitus features, but also covert differences in their fingertip movement trajectories on the tablet surface as they performed the reporting assay. Using only 10\u2009min of data, we achieved 81% accuracy classifying patients and malingerers (ROC AUC\u2009=\u20090.88) with leave-one-out cross validation. 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