AS Confidence

The reliability rating reported alongside an Authority Score. Computed from the proportion of expected datapoints for which evidence was successfully collected, the reliability of the collection (failed crawls, blocked endpoints, timeouts, and degraded external sources reduce confidence), and the category of the domain. When confidence falls below threshold, AS is reported with an explicit reliability flag and recommendations for the data acquisition needed to lift it. Acting on a low-confidence score is methodologically equivalent to acting on a small sample.