# DEVIATION_2 decision

Recorded: 2026-10-27 05:59 MDT. This was written before the blind key was opened for scoring.

Kevin's words, as relayed by Abe (not heard directly by Ford):
- "Let's find a different person to do the blind rating"
- "my girlfriend Hope is here with me and can be the second human if needed"

Decision: option 1 from DEVIATION_2 (sha256 669f9402d0e8ed54c3512814934a0c99788d0ad545e988b6c8d22890045d1e82). The preregistered blind test runs on a new rater, Hope. Kevin isn't a rater.

Hope's prior exposure: per Kevin via Abe, she hadn't seen the images, the video or the audio. This hasn't been independently verified.

Answers file: blind/ratings/hope_answers.json, sha256 457f627a8037bccba674dcb05cb7ddbc3c360261c0243145184d62b67e033a2a. The page timestamp says answering started 2026-10-27T11:58:03Z (05:58 MDT).

Rating page note (from Abe): the content security policy at first blocked the page's inline script, so no images loaded. Abe says he fixed this in commit 4172919 before Hope began.

Scoring is exactly as written in RATING_PREREG.md (sha256 6c0262f62199b1282447039d91ad091b529710ab631d3ba6df4e97c451f1bbfc), plus a descriptive breakdown of the 6 seed-0 pairs that appeared on the contact sheet, for the DEVIATION_2 record. That breakdown isn't part of the pass rule.