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Exemplar anchors

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Positive and negative examples, adversarial near-misses, and scale points attached to a criterion card to fix its boundary. Not the reference anchor A, the anchor channel, or the linking items kept across suite versions.

Defined in

Handbook · InstrumentAnchors and evidence viewsWhat the judgment is rooted in, and what the evaluator may see: two coordinates most taxonomies forget, and the cheapest lever for better evaluators.
Reference anchor
The external object a judgment is rooted in: a canonical answer, gold state, reference distribution, adjudicated expert labels, a stronger evaluator, or production outcomes. Gold is a reference anchor, not a mechanism or a rung.
Criterion card
The atomic specification for one criterion: facet, operational definition, allowed evidence, positive and negative exemplars, boundary and abstention rules, severity (fatal, tradeable, advisory, or escalate), mechanism, blind spots, owner, and version.

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