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Uniqueness
The reason: “Federal Reserve officials have been barred from holding individual stocks, sector funds, individual bonds, crypto and derivatives since May 2022, with preclearance and a one-year holding period” makes a different point from: “The Federal Reserve barred its own policymakers from holding individual stocks in 2022 and kept functioning and kept hiring, which shows a comparable institution can operate under the rule” 0.50
Uniqueness ArgumentsReasons and redundancy →
Reasons to agree that X is a distinct point from Z
| # | Reason (pattern) | Truth | Conf | Link | Imp | Uniq | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Different evidenceThe evidence row carries the rule text and effective dates; the argument carries the institutional outcome. | 0.50 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.50 | 1.00 | +0.00 |
| 2 | Independent failureThe rule could exist exactly as described and the institution could still have lost staff, which would refute the argument and not the finding. | 0.50 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.50 | 1.00 | +0.00 |
Reasons to disagree (X restates Z)
| # | Reason (pattern) | Truth | Conf | Link | Imp | Uniq | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shared premiseBoth rest on the same event, and a reader who accepts one has already accepted most of the other. | 0.50 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.50 | 1.00 | -0.00 |
| 2 | ParaphraseThe argument states that the Fed adopted the rule and kept functioning; the finding states that the Fed adopted the rule. The second sentence is contained in the first. | 0.50 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.50 | 1.00 | -0.00 |
Total agree 0.00 · total disagree 0.00 · uniqueness score 0.50
Nobody wins by making one point five ways. Reasons here are about what X adds beyond Z, never about whether either is true. Several sources for one finding are evidence volume, not redundancy.
Check table
| 1 | Exact wording of X | Federal Reserve officials have been barred from holding individual stocks, sector funds, individual bonds, crypto and derivatives since May 2022, with preclearance and a one-year holding period. |
| 2 | Exact wording of Z | The Federal Reserve barred its own policymakers from holding individual stocks in 2022 and kept functioning and kept hiring, which shows a comparable institution can operate under the rule. |
| 3 | What X says that Z does not | The finding adds the rule's scope and dates; the argument adds the claim that the institution kept working. |
| 4 | Computed uniqueness score | 0.50: X keeps 50% of its score on the parent page |
| 5 | Overlap discount applied to X | 50% |
| 6 | Bottom line, typed by the author after the tables above | Largely redundant: the finding keeps a minority of its weight, which is the discount working as intended. |
The five steps, answered from the pages above. Only the one-sentence bridge and the bottom line are typed.
DefinitionsThe full explanation →
- Uniqueness score: this page's truth score. The parent page multiplies X's score by it; Z keeps its full score, so the discount falls on the later duplicate.
- If two reasons are about 90 percent the same, the second adds about 10 percent of its score. The reasons on this page decide that percentage.
Where This Page Is Used
| Page | Table | As | Its truth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barring members of Congress and the president from owning or trading individual stocks would reduce the use of public office for private gain. | evidence | the uniqueness of a row | 0.50 |
Every page that reads this one. One claim, one home, every use visible.
Scoring EngineTruth scores →
| Quantity | Value | How |
|---|---|---|
| Reasons to agree, total | 0.00 | sum of the agree side |
| Reasons to disagree, total | 0.00 | sum of the disagree side |
| Uniqueness score | 0.50 | (agree + weight x starting point) / (agree + disagree + weight), starting point 0.50, weight 1.00 |
| ReasonRank | 0.0000 | how much of the site depends on this page: rank 1978 of 2173. The share of a walk that starts at the 162 beliefs and steps to the pages they read, with a 0.85 chance of stepping on each time |
| Work value | 0.0000 | ReasonRank x (1 - confidence): how much settling this page would be worth to everything above it |
| Completeness | yes | at least one scored reason on each side (an importance page: at least one interest; an interest page: both readings filled) |
Cite this page The reason: “Federal Reserve officials have been barred from holding individual stocks, sector funds, individual bonds, crypto and derivatives since May 2022, with preclearance and a one-year holding period” makes a different point from: “The Federal Reserve barred its own policymakers from holding individual stocks in 2022 and kept functioning and kept hiring, which shows a comparable institution can operate under the rule”. Idea Stock Exchange, uniqueness page uniq-federal-reserve-officials-federal-reserve, truth 0.50, confidence 29%, revision 42c8344 of 2026-10-04. The revision is what makes this quotable: these numbers move as the argument is worked on, and rebuilding that revision reproduces them exactly.
Every number on this page as data: uniq-federal-reserve-officials-federal-reserve.json. Constants: K = 1 · UNARG = 0.5 · DEFLINK = 1 · DEFIMP = 0.5 · DEFUNIQ = 1. A reason placed under a conclusion is presumed relevant until a linkage page says otherwise; the burden is on the challenger. The neutral start for importance, the wiki's own rule.
Every value here is computed from the tables above at build time. Nothing is typed.