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Baihan Lin

The authors test how plausible language-model and scoring choices affect depression screening of the same interviews. Across 880 configurations and 189 interviews, model choice explained 30.0% of score variance, versus 10.5% for stable participant differences. Qualified raters disagreed on 40% of participants; recalibration with 40 labels halved disagreement, but left about one in five decisions different. The criterion was self-reported PHQ-8, not diagnosis.

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