SCORING MODEL: VV CLAIM INTEGRITY SCORE 1.0
A score for how much a claim can fairly carry.
VV Claim Integrity Score 1.0 is the public scoring output for the Claim Ledger. It is not a popularity score and does not move when public votes come in. It summarizes the reviewed evidence and the quality of the claim boundary.
What this framework is for
VV Claim Integrity Score 1.0 is for explaining how well a canonical claim is supported and bounded across evidence confidence, source quality, applicability, overclaim containment, harm-risk handling, and graph support.
What the score does not mean
It is not medical advice.
It is not a certainty score or truth machine.
It is not affected by public votes, submissions, or virality except through editorial review.
Score bands
85-100: Strongly Supported Claim
70-84: Supported With Boundaries
55-69: Partly Supported / Context-Dependent
40-54: Uncertain Claim
Below 40: Unsupported or Overstated
Gates and caps
Mechanism-to-outcome cap: mechanistic evidence cannot carry broad clinical outcome claims above 60.
Observational-causation cap: observational evidence cannot carry causal claims above 70 unless wording is association-level.
High overclaim and high harm caps keep risky claims bounded until limits and safety context are explicit.
Score Dimensions
Evidence confidence 22%
Source quality 16%
Applicability 14%
Boundary clarity 16%
Overclaim containment 12%
Harm-risk handling 10%
Graph support 10%
Public Votes Are Separate
Public votes help identify claims that need review, clarification, or correction. They do not change the Claim Integrity Score, VV evidence confidence, or published claim status.
Relationship to VV Evaluation Matrix and VV Signal Score
VV Evaluation Matrix v1.0 evaluates broader interventions and claims. VV Signal Score 1.0 summarizes durable article-level signal. VV Claim Integrity Score 1.0 is narrower: it scores a single canonical claim statement and its boundaries.
VV Claim Integrity Score 1.0
Use the Viral Vitalism framework system to make health claims clearer, more contextual, and easier to evaluate.
Viral Vitalism is an educational publication, not medical advice.