# Design Arena judges reveal bias toward busier pages in model comparisons

> Original title: Here's the exact instruction every judge got, and both rewrites. We told them to judge what a person would actually use, and they still w...

- Source: Design Arena
- Published: 2026-11-01T19:31:53.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/sszhdsgos6jj5hdyaamev2cq4
- Original: https://x.com/DesignArena/status/2116976541238452718

## Summary

Design Arena says it gave judges the same instruction to pick the design a person would actually use, yet they still favored the busier page. Each pair of rewrites was judged twice, once in each order, with model names hidden.

## Post

Here's the exact instruction every judge got, and both rewrites. We told them to judge what a person would actually use, and they still went for the busier page. Each pair was judged twice, once in each order, with the model names hidden.

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