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Paired comparison

Also written: paired comparisons

Testing two options on the same items and looking at where they disagree. Shared items cancel out differences in difficulty.

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If the two models were equally good, each disagreement would be a coin flip. z measures how lopsided the flips came out, in units of the usual wobble.

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Comparing two models on the same test · Paired results, disagreements, a quick z and a bootstrap for the gap between two models. About 25 minutes.

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