Unanimous-fail panels alone reduced benchmark activation by approximately 40% on average for three Critical evaluators, but were insufficient on their own¶

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q2 i? Moving from a single judge to three judges under the unanimous-fail rule reduced benchmark activation by approximately 40% on average for Student safety, Diversity & inclusion, and Factual accuracy. → Chris Rohlfs 2026

Evidence¶

Chris Rohlfs 2026¶

Chris Rohlfs, Rodrigo Vergara Bosse, Priscilla Hopper, Keanon O'Keefe, Patrick J. Russell. (2026). When Evaluators Cry Wolf: Lessons from Production LLM-as-Judge Evaluation in Educational AI. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28478 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.28478

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Ablation approximation from the calibration record (Appendix E): an initial calibration round held the rubric fixed and varied only panel size for three Critical evaluators. The article reports the ~40% average reduction was "a promising signal but not sufficient on its own."

"moving from a single judge to three judges under the unanimous-fail rule reduced benchmark activation by approximately 40% on average, a promising signal but not sufficient on its own."

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