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The judge's two-way kappa against grader A was 0.62 and its three-way kappa was 0.21. What does that comparison tell you?

Very little on its own, because chance agreement differs between two and three categories, Kappa measures agreement above chance, and chance agreement depends on the number of categories. Two random labellers match about half the time with two boxes and about a third of the time with three, so the same observed agreement produces a different kappa. The comparable number is agreement on the failure question, which both rubrics answer: 90 percent down to 65 percent.

Across all three judges, the word 'partial' was used 12 times. How many landed on an answer that at least one of the two graders also called partial?

2, Two. Ministral 8B landed one on an answer both graders called partial, and Nova Lite landed its single use on an answer grader B called partial. Only Llama 3 8B never found one. Counted against grader A alone it looks like 1 of 12, and quoting that number would be the one-grader trap from the last lesson, committed on our own result.

Why does adding a third category make a judge's job harder, before you consider anything about the model?

The grid of judge-and-reader combinations goes from 4 cells to 9, and disagreements go from 2 to 6, It is arithmetic. Count the boxes, then multiply that number by itself. That is how many combinations there are. Two boxes give 4 cells and 2 of them are a disagreement. Three boxes give 9 cells and 6 of them are a disagreement. The extra box is only worth that cost if it lets the judge decide something it could not decide before.

Your judge scores 57 percent against one grader and 100 percent against another. What do you do first?

Write down where a half-right answer goes, and have both graders label the same 20 answers again, Fix the ruler before you measure with it. While two graders disagree about what counts as a failure, any improvement you measure in the judge might be the disagreement moving rather than the judge improving. Having them label 20 answers again against a written rule costs an afternoon, and it tells you whether the guide was the problem.

The three-way rubric lost in 5 of 6 pairs and won in 1. What is the most useful thing to do with that result?

Record it, including what it says about the judge's limit, so nobody tries the same idea again without knowing what happened, The result tells you something specific and reusable: this judge cannot pick out half-right answers. That says what to route to a person and what a better judge would need to be better at. Reporting only the smallest drop, or rerunning until the answer changes, would be choosing the comparison after seeing the data.

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