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Visalli et al. (2022) — Dark chocolate panel

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benchmark:visalli-chocolate-2022

Reuse this data: CSV JSON headers match the published fixture; distributions JSON-encoded inline
Shape mix: 2 unimodal 2 left-skewed
Δ 0.58 3.43 () → 2.85 () within-fixture gradient
Acceptance rubric

An SSR re-run acceptably reproduces this benchmark when it clears every check below on the same 4 paired questions the source publishes. The chip badges name the checks the round-38 → round-46 shape-mismatch finding argued are necessary but not sufficient in isolation.

CI overlap 4/4 Shape match 4/4 SSR mean inside CI · shape badge reproduces the source label.
What this benchmark discloses
Recruitment screener (verbatim)
Recruited by gender, age, and dark-chocolate consumption frequency. Excluded: allergy, restrictive diet, vulnerable persons, pregnant women. Source: Visalli et al. (2022), PMC9679663.
Sample weighting & demographics
Unweighted hedonic. 9-point discrete scale, single rating per product per consumer. Anchor labels not in the paper body — pending .xlsx codebook inspection.
Fieldwork dates, country, language
Dijon and vicinity, France. Specific collection dates not published in PMC9679663. Mendeley release: 2022-10-03.
Original question text & translations
On a scale of 1 to 9, how do you like this chocolate? — single hedonic rating per chocolate per consumer. Source: questionnaire.pdf p.18 (Mendeley fshtbhffth/1). Screen [7] reused for chocolate per q.txt:162-163 ("Same as screens 4 to 12 with chocolate").
Likert / scale labelling
9-point discrete checkbox scale, end-anchored only. Anchor 1 = "I did not like it at all". Anchor 9 = "I liked it very much". Points 2-8 unlabelled (equal-interval assumption).
FGI moderator guide & coding rules
Hedonic survey, not FGI. No moderator guide. The temporal methods (TDS, TCATA, AEF, FC-AEF) in the same paper are out of scope for this paired comparison.
Data source & license
CC-BY 4.0. Attribution: Visalli M. et al. (2022). https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/fshtbhffth/1

Anything not disclosed here was not available in the source dataset and is recorded as such.

SSR run — reproducibility keys
template_version
3.0.0
llm_seed
4202
bootstrap_seed
8404
llm_model
deepseek-v4-flash
embedding_model
nvidia/nv-embed-v1

SSR score vs ground truth, by question

Each row holds one question. The teal mark and range are SSR. The sky mark and range are the source FGI/survey.

§ How much do you like this dark chocolate? (CH1 — 85% cocoa, Madagascar)
SSR
Source 2.85 (2.74–2.96)
Source distribution SD 1.15 skew 0.00 9 cells unimodal
1.02.03.04.05.0
§ How much do you like this dark chocolate? (CH2 — 80% cocoa, Equator)
SSR
Source 3.43 (3.33–3.52)
Source distribution SD 1.00 skew -0.55 9 cells left-skewed
1.02.03.04.05.0
§ How much do you like this dark chocolate? (CH3 — 70% cocoa, Peru)
SSR
Source 3.10 (3.00–3.21)
Source distribution SD 1.14 skew -0.31 9 cells unimodal
1.02.03.04.05.0
§ How much do you like this dark chocolate? (CH4 — 74% cocoa, Côte d'Ivoire)
SSR
Source 3.42 (3.32–3.52)
Source distribution SD 1.07 skew -0.61 9 cells left-skewed
1.02.03.04.05.0
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Hedonic taste tests (CPG)

9-pt hedonic panel scored on four SKU per category in the Visalli et al. open dataset. Same panel, multiple products — the gradient is product-vs-product within one consumer.