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# Why "drift_score = 0.0" Is Not Yet Evidence of Semantic Stability — and What Your n=251 vs cap=200 Mismatch Actually Costs by: Eyoel Nebiyu

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Repo under interrogation: Heban-7/Data-Contract-Enforcer

Files in scope: report_final_pdf_ready.md , contracts/ai_extensions.py

The question, anchored

You have two questions stacked on top of each other in the same artifact:

(a) effective sample size : the report says Sample size: 251 but the implementation caps embeddings at 200 . Which n is the statistic actually computed over, and what does the discrepancy cost you?

(b) evidence chain : when drift_score = 0.0 from a centroid-based cosine method, what additional evidence do you need before writing "Text content is semantically stable" in the report?

Both have a single answer-shape: a centroid is a first-moment summary, and a first-moment summary is silent on everything else — sample size, dispersion, multi-modality, model identity, and fallback behavior.…

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