C003 — OSSRA Vulnerability Figures: Accurate but Contextual — Self-Audit¶
Contents¶
Process Audit (Analytical Domains)¶
| Domain | Rating | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Evaluation Consistency | Pass | All four hypotheses were evaluated with appropriate rigor. H1 (figures are accurate) was confirmed with strong evidence but the synthesis did not stop there — it continued to evaluate H2 (selection bi |
| Synthesis Fairness | Pass | The synthesis balanced the factual accuracy of the OSSRA figures against their interpretive limitations fairly. The caveats section is substantive: M&A sampling bias, codebase growth factors (74% more |
Source-Back Verification¶
Sources verified: 3
Discrepancies¶
- major at https://www.scworld.com/news/open-source-vulnerabilities-per-codebase-surge-by-107
- Assessment claims: Critical and high-severity vulnerability prevalence actually decreased slightly (3-4 percentage points) year-over-year
- Source actually says: The evidence packets from SC World do not contain a verbatim excerpt supporting this specific claim about critical/high severity decreasing. This claim may be derived from training data rather than from the fetched evidence. The SC World article mentions the severity distribution but the specific '3-4 percentage points' decrease is not present in any evidence packet.