The arithmetic for one report
Trump still defiant after a bruising week
90Few flagged expressions
What was read
551 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 7 in the headline. 18% of the text is in quotes, with 3 listed words inside quotes. 13 attribution markers (such as "said" or "according to") found.
Listed words inside quotes (not scored; quoting is reporting, but which quotes to use is an editorial choice): loser
, sham
, radical left
.
Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): go away quietly.
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
admitted
2 points Loaded word for "said"
the AP's Voter Poll. Trump admitted the unpopular war helped Republicans lose - Raises the temperature:
massive
1 point Raises the temperature
noted that Trump has a massive war chest that he could wieldblasted
1 point Raises the temperature
White House spokesperson Davis Ingle blasted the judge's ruling, saying the administration
Layer scores
Rates are counted points per 1,000 words of the story's own text. For a story longer than 200 words, the rate used is the average of the whole-story rate and the rate in its densest 200-word stretch, so neutral filler cannot dilute a loaded passage away. Score = 100 × (loaded end − rate used) ÷ loaded end, kept between 0 and 100. Headline words count only in the headline layer.
| Layer | Points | Words | Whole-story rate | Densest 200 words | Rate used | Scale | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Word choice | 2 | 551 | 3.6 | 10.0 (words 1 to 200) | 6.8 | 0 to 40 | 83 |
| Temperature | 2 | 551 | 3.6 | 5.0 (words 101 to 300) | 4.3 | 0 to 40 | 89 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 551 | 0.0 | 0.0 (words 1 to 200) | 0.0 | 0 to 20 | 100 |
| Headline wording | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | headline only | 0.0 | 0 to 240 | 100 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 1 to 200 of 551, with admitted
; Temperature, words 101 to 300 of 551, with massive
.
Shown, not scored: the headline's rate minus the rate of the story's first 80 words is 0.0 points per 1,000 words.
Overall
Weighted geometric mean of the layers that are established, with 10 added to each layer first and taken away at the end: (Word choice 83 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 89 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 90. Adding 10 means one layer at 0 lowers the total steeply without collapsing it. A weak layer pulls the total down.
Lowered the score most: Word choice.
Name-swap test: with party, politician and institution names swapped, this report's score moves by 0.0 points.
Only the feed's headline and summary were read, so this report is listed with the headline-and-summary results and never enters the outlet ranking.
What a reader could check
| People named as sources | 2 (Barrett Marson, Lauren Bis) |
|---|---|
| Unnamed sources | 0 (0% of all sources found) |
| Links to primary records (government, court, filings, PDFs) | 0 |
| Documents cited in the text (a report, bill, ruling, filing) | 1 |
| Checkable specifics (numbers and dates) | 5 |
| Data shown (a table or chart) | no |
| Correction or clarification noted | no |
What a reader could check, counted by published patterns. Only the headline and summary were read, so most counts will be low. Shown beside the score, never part of it. How each count works
Checked against the official record
No vote count or bill number found in the text read.
Record of this measurement
Method 3.1.0, word-list fingerprint 807a17189402a416, read by text extractor version 4. Fingerprint of the text read: cb0c8cee0f9897e0. Internet Archive copy nearest the time it was read. The text read was not kept (read before method 3.1.0, or from the feed only), so a later rule change can be applied only while the report is still in the outlet's feed.