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Your judge scores 93% accuracy on a set where 92% of answers are correct. What should you conclude?

Almost nothing yet. A judge that says 'correct' to everything would score 92%, so you need the share of real failures it caught, Accuracy counts every box in the table, and most answers in a working system are fine. The lazy baseline here is 92%, so 93% tells you the judge is barely distinguishable from one that does no work. The number that separates them is the share of real failures caught, which goes to zero for the lazy judge and is not visible in accuracy at all.

Why is a failure, rather than a correct answer, treated as the positive case?

Because the judge exists to detect failures, so the rates should measure how well it detects them, A detector is measured on how well it detects the thing it is for. Set 'correct' as the positive case and your recall number answers 'of the good answers, how many did it agree with', which is a question nobody asked. The numbers are not the same either: they swap, and the dangerous error stops being visible.

A judge caught 4 of 4 real failures and the 95% interval is 100% to 100%. What does that interval tell you?

That the sample is too small to say anything, because resampling four successes always gives four successes, With four positives and four catches, every resample catches four, so the interval cannot move. Against seven failures the same judge gave an interval from 17% to 100%, which is the honest width here.

Your judge has a high catching rate and a low leaving-alone rate: it flags many good answers as failures. Who does this hurt, and what usually happens?

Engineers, who waste time on traces that were fine, and eventually start ignoring the judge entirely, False alarms cost engineer time, not customer trust. Individually that is cheap. The real damage is cumulative: a judge that cries wolf often enough gets ignored, and an ignored judge catches nothing regardless of how good its catching rate is. That is why the noise number is reported next to the safety number rather than dismissed.

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