Debiasing as a Measurement Intervention: Calibrated Ties and Resolution Loss in LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation
LLM-as-a-judge protocols are commonly debiased by instructing judges to ignore presentation cues such as citation formatting, source labels, and evidence-display style. We show that this intervention can suppress bias while damaging the resolution of the measurement instrument. We introduce TraceJudgeBench, a diagnosti...