— 01 / THE CHERUSCI STANDARD
Confidence must be earned.
Confidence must be earned.
Every assessment separates observed fact from reporting, inference, and judgment. That distinction remains visible to the decision-maker.
01Primary evidence
02Independent corroboration
03OSINT verification
04Competing narratives
05Fact-checking
06Media provenance
07Adversarial review
08Assessment

Confidence lexicon
ConfirmedCorroboratedReportedClaimedAttributedAssessedProbablePossibleUnverifiedMisleadingFalse