answer stability
How much an engine's answer to the same prompt changes between runs, models and days.
What answer stability does not show
High churn means a citation observed once is weak evidence; measuring it needs repeated runs, which is why a single screenshot of an answer proves almost nothing about visibility.
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Questions about answer stability
What is answer stability?
How much an engine's answer to the same prompt changes between runs, models and days.
What does answer stability not show or guarantee?
High churn means a citation observed once is weak evidence; measuring it needs repeated runs, which is why a single screenshot of an answer proves almost nothing about visibility.
Which area of the glossary does answer stability belong to?
Measurement and evidence: The vocabulary for saying how strongly something is known.
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