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audience design

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Definition

When a speaker tailors what they say based on who they think is listening.

A sociolinguistic concept describing how speakers adapt their utterances to the perceived identity, knowledge, or expectations of their listeners; invoked to explain LLM political-bias variation across prompted personas.

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    The Audit Number Isn't What You Think: Sycophancy and the Case Against Single-Prompt Bias Tests