R05 · JUNCTION · LAYER 9 OF 15 (DERIVED)Settlement Quality
Is behavior moving before the story?
READY_UNSCORED
THE REGISTERED QUESTION
Is behavior moving before the narrative?
LEVEL Intermediate · CONFIDENCE NOT_ASSESSED · DEFINITION DEFINED
FALSIFIABLE CLAIM
A sustained center-of-distribution increase that begins while price and search attention remain flat will predict later language or price updating more reliably than count-only spikes.
STRENGTHENS IF
Behavior leads independent language and price measures across repeated events.
FRAMEWORK ANCHOR
Ch. 14; Ch. 16, behavior-first regime
REQUIRES: SET-MON-001 METHOD_REQUIRED
FEEDS: REG-LANG-001 BLOCKED ↓ TRUNK · REG-PRICE-001 BLOCKED
FEEDS: REG-LANG-001 BLOCKED ↓ TRUNK · REG-PRICE-001 BLOCKED
GATED BY 2 BLOCKED ANCESTORS
BLOCKING FRONTIER · 1
SET-MON-001Is real usage rising and holding?METHOD_REQUIRED
MECHANISM: OBJ-SETTLEMENT-FILTERS · THE REGISTERED FILTERS · FROM THE BOOK · NOT MEASURED — B
BOUND METRICS · 0
MISSING DATA IS NOT A ZERO
ANSWER NO IF
Center movement does not persist or has no later relation to language or price.