Disinterest Screen for Taste Panels

A pre-screening module for consumer taste-test panels and design-award juries that scores each evaluator on two separate axes — biasing stakes such as ownership, purchase plans, or professional rivalry, and genuine affective engagement with the work — and reports a stake-adjusted verdict alongside the raw vote. Evaluators who simply love a work are kept and their engagement reported as signal rather than noise, while embedded validity checks flag raters who overstate their neutrality. The screen keeps the original aim of separating verdicts from personal advantage while conceding that love of a work is not contamination.