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Ah, you're only speaking of temporal consistency (or "constancy" - does the source's statement change over time).

I was speaking of consistency with the general body of knowledge in the system, (correspondence?).

In the specific case of evaluating major news sources for trust, I think the vast majority of their statements are never retracted/changed, and therefore they would rate highly on an overall "constancy" scale as well. Their many statements about Trump's likelihood of winning were very constant as well - for months they said he'd lose, then they changed, and forever after they will say he won.

Sounds very temporally consistent, with just a single change.

Not sure if the adjudicator could narrow it just to "trust of the source's future predictions about politics", but basically the whole country just got a negative feedback on the trust weighting for major media in that domain.



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