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How verdicts are counted

Verdicts rate public examples — patterns you can learn from — not your organization’s compliance score. You assemble the pieces that fit your scope.

Examples are pieces, not a full practice scorecard

Each rating applies to one implementation example. It is not an SPRS entry, a certification result, or a score for your company. For CMMC Level 2 (and similar frameworks), a practice has multiple assessment objectives. One sanitized example often covers only some of them on purpose.

To address every objective in a control, you may need several examples — plus whatever is unique to your environment. ControlVerdict is a repository of those patterns; you still have to assemble and evidence what you run.

Seven-level scale plus objective coverage

Each example is rated on a seven-level scale from overachieving meet through start-over miss. Gaps and finish-line details are required depending on the level — a bare tally is noise.

In addition, raters mark every assessment objective on the control as covered, partially covered, or not covered by that example. That captures intentional partial coverage without pretending one write-up clears the whole practice, and keeps the language distinct from OSC “applicable / N/A” findings.

Adequacy and sufficiency

When you rate, weigh both: whether the example points at the right kind of evidence for the objectives it covers (adequacy — docs, people, live system), and whether there is enough to stop collecting for those objectives or only one piece of a larger set (sufficiency).

Raw and weighted scores

Raw score counts every verdict equally — one member, one vote.
Weighted score counts a verified Certified Assessor’s verdict as 3 votes. Both scores are always shown side by side, so the weighting is visible rather than hidden inside a single number.
Divergence is surfaced, not smoothed. When assessors and the wider community disagree, the example says so explicitly. That gap is often the most informative thing on the page.
Small samples are labelled as such. Nothing is called a consensus below 3 verdicts, and “above the line” requires a weighted score of at least 75%.
You cannot vote on your own example, one account gets one verdict per example, and changing your mind updates your verdict while preserving the history.

What consensus is not

Consensus here is evidence about community opinion. It is not a determination, an interpretation from any authority, and not a defense in an assessment. The only bodies whose readings bind you are the ones in your contract.

Assessor weight depends on administrator verification. See Assessor verification.