This SIGIR 2025 short paper studies whether demographic instructions change five LLMs' agreement with human sexism judgments; it does not assess psychological personality or show that a model adopts an identity. It uses 7,958 bilingual EXIST 2023 tweets: 6,920 training plus 1,038 development items, not the separate 2,076-item test set. Each tweet has six binary labels, three female and three male and two in each 18-22, 23-45, and 46+ group, for 47,748 judgments. GPT-3.5, GPT-4, GPT-4o, Mistral Small 22B, and Qwen2.5-14B produce one label under a baseline prompt and prompts adding only sex or age. The outcome is ratio Krippendorff alpha between the model label and each group's per-tweet human proportion. In the baseline run, every model has higher alpha with the female than male aggregate: 0.415/0.371, 0.365/0.325, 0.228/0.191, 0.353/0.310, and 0.378/0.345. This is differential agreement, not by itself a causal bias, female personality, or normative gold standard. Age has no common direction. Demographic personas have mixed effects: female prompting raises target agreement for GPT-4, GPT-4o, and Mistral; male prompting only for GPT-4 and Qwen. GPT-4 and Qwen improve in all three target-age conditions, GPT-3.5 only for 46+, GPT-4o in none, and Mistral for 18-22 and 23-45 but not 46+. The prose incorrectly says Mistral improves consistently: Table 3 falls from 0.392 to 0.383 for 46+. The defensible conclusion is that a short demographic phrase can move agreement in a model-dependent way and is not reliable mitigation. Prompt selection also limits inference: three candidates were tried on twenty tweets and the one with greatest agreement among three LLMs was selected (75%, versus 70% and 55%); o1-preview then rewrote it. The criterion was cross-model consistency, not human validity, calibration, or bias reduction, with no held-out confirmation. Each final cell has one prediction per tweet; run-to-run, paraphrase, and API variation are unmeasured, Mistral/Qwen modifications are unspecified, and English and Spanish are pooled. Statistical auditing finds a material problem. Demographic rates are paired on the same tweets, yet the code uses an independent t-test and independent ANOVA/Tukey tests. The artifact reproduces p=0.237; respecting pairing, the female-minus-male difference is only 0.00716, but a paired t-test gives p=0.0463 and Wilcoxon p=0.000383. The nominal decision changes without making 0.72 percentage points a large effect. Age differences remain detectable with a paired Friedman check, although post-hoc tests need redesign. The intervals are also not reproducible. The paper claims 10,000 bootstraps and intervals narrower than 0.001, but the public function transposes the 2x7,958 matrix, flattens it, resamples cells, and reshapes it as 7,958x2; the library then sees another reliability structure and tweet pairing is broken. For female versus male, target alpha is 0.4768 and the defective callback 0.000254. In 500 audit resamples, a correct bootstrap gives about [0.4578, 0.4955], while the public method gives a narrow interval around zero. The pre-paper commit calls this function 10,000 times; final outputs are absent, so the exact manuscript run cannot be proven, but if this function was used its intervals do not bound the tables. Distance choice matters too: interval alpha is 0.647 rather than 0.477. The matching first-author repository compiles but is neither linked nor versioned in the paper and lacks the dataset, final predictions, Mistral/Qwen outputs, CSVs, intervals, logs, and tables; its intermediate JSON disagrees with several alphas. There are no tests, CI, tag, or release; Ruff reports 68 findings and the environment omits OpenAI. The API layer catches every exception and returns None without releasing final failure rates. No contamination test exists: the claim that labels were not public is not a guarantee because this experiment uses train and development data distributed by organizers. The tables support a practical warning about simple persona-prompt instability, not identity, empathy, personality, fairness, or generalization.
Research question
With which demographic groups of annotators do five LLMs agree most when classifying sexism in EXIST 2023, and does adding sex or age to the prompt reliably shift that agreement toward the indicated group?