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Your judge catches 95% of failures against your labels. A colleague asks how confident you are. What is the first thing you need to know?

How many labellers produced those labels, and what scoring guide they used, In this lab the same judge scored 100% and 57% on identical traces, purely because a second grader made a different rubric decision about partial answers. Nothing inside a single-grader run can reveal that sensitivity. The trace count matters too, but it is the failure count that sets your sample size, and the labeller count and rubric that set how much the number can move.

Two careful graders label the same 40 traces. On a three-way rubric they use identical words on every disagreeing trace. On a yes-or-no rubric they disagree on three. What does that tell you?

They agree about the answers and disagree about where partial answers belong, so the rubric needs fixing, not the graders, This is exactly what happened in the lab. Both graders called all three traces 'partial', so there was no argument about the answers at all. The disagreement appeared only when a two-box rubric forced them to file a partial answer as either fine or broken, and nobody had written down which. That single unwritten rule produced a 43-point swing in the judge's score.

Your judge scores much worse against a second grader's labels. What should you do first?

Write down what to do with partial answers, then re-measure, The judge gave the same verdict on every trace in both runs, so prompt work would have changed nothing. The gap came from a rubric rule nobody had written down, and averaging the two scores hides that finding.

Is it true that a judge can never score higher than the agreement between your two labellers?

No. Nothing stops a judge matching one labeller more closely than the two labellers match each other. What it cannot do is score highly against both at once, Be precise here. In our lab the judge did sit under the limit: the two graders agree 93 percent of the time and the best judge reached 90 percent against grader A. But the limit is not a law of arithmetic. Nothing stops a judge agreeing with one labeller more often than the two labellers agree with each other. What it cannot do is score highly against both at once, because the traces they disagree on have to be decided one way or the other. So the useful warning is not that a number is impossible. It is that a single high score usually means nobody checked against a second set of labels.

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