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# Validating the Comparison, Not Just the Scorer: Why Overall Accuracy Can Mislead in Interactive LLM Evaluation

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**Published:** 2026-10-26T04:00:00.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** llm

## Summary

A new audit of six models using 180 invented\-entity questions and six prompt conditions found that validating an automatic scorer with a single overall accuracy or F1 score can hide prompt\-specific mistakes, with an overall F1 of \.916 in a balanced audit of 288 responses\.

## Sources

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