Evaluation design and benchmarks · MLD-0907
Position bias
An evaluation or ranking effect caused by where an item appears rather than its intrinsic quality.
Original reference page · detailed expansion pending. Original definitions, examples, notes and citations are preserved below. New examples are illustrative, not benchmark results.
Original example
Swap candidate-answer order in pairwise judging.
Original caveat
Position bias also occurs in user interactions with ranked lists.
Context and aliases
Level: Intermediate. Stages: Evaluation · Research.
Tags: ML · DL · LLM · SLM · Safety.
Aliases: None recorded.