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Judging something's worth while pretending your own biases took the day off.
means A careful assessment of how good, valuable, or effective something is, based on examining evidence against some standard.
from From Latin 'valere,' meaning to be strong or to be worth something — the same root that gives us 'value' and 'valid.' French added the prefix 'e-' (out) plus a noun ending to form 'évaluation,' literally the act of drawing worth 'out' of something, assigning it a number or verdict. English borrowed the word wholesale in the 1700s-1800s, keeping the French shape intact — a rare case where the etymology and the job of the word line up almost too neatly.
- root meaning
- from valere, to be strong or worth something
- hidden flaw
- the metric changes the thing it measures
- AI context
- models now graded by other models, recursively
- dirty secret
- the rubric was written after seeing the results