# Cognitive Effect Assessment Framework
The Cognitive Effect Assessment Framework is the article’s proposed measurement system for evaluating decision performance rather than engagement, reach, sentiment, or message volume.
## Candidate measures
- OODA-loop continuity and decision latency under pressure;
- trust-network integrity and recovery;
- provenance adoption and verification speed;
- AI-assistant robustness;
- attribution-fog entropy;
- amplification-signature velocity;
- pre/post-perturbation coherence change;
- beneficiary-analysis confidence.
## Purpose
The framework makes cognitive sovereignty testable and auditable. It asks whether people and institutions can continue to orient and decide accurately, not merely whether a counter-message received attention.
## Evidentiary boundary
These are proposed measures, not a settled government standard. Valid use requires operational definitions, baselines, uncertainty ranges, civil-liberties controls, and resistance to metric gaming.
## Source
[[articles/Cognitive-Cyber Warfare Measures and Countermeasures#A Cognitive Effect Assessment Framework|Cognitive-Cyber Warfare — assessment framework]].