MCC ≈ −310 / 1,476 ≈ −0.21. A negative value close to −0.2 signals that the classifier performs worse than random guessing, largely because the high number of false positives overwhelms the single true positive. The other answer options either over-estimate performance (positive values) or mis-represent near-random performance (values near 0).
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