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An evidence floor is the minimum independent evidence a brand must accumulate before any score is published. It is the single rule behind most pages that show no number — and it is about evidence sufficiency, never about quality.
Two correlated sources are not two pieces of evidence. The floor counts effective independent sources — after collapsing feeds that echo each other — and only publishes a score once enough genuinely independent evidence exists, across the required categories.
1.40 < 2.0 → score withheld. A provisional 6.1 exists internally but is never published. Two more independent sources would clear the floor.