The arithmetic for one report
Meet Pro-War Think Tanks That Helped Drag America Into War And Hand Democrats Keys To The Castle
55High density of flagged expressions short This report has fewer than 150 words in the outlet's own voice, so it does not count toward the outlet's score.
What was read
132 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 17 in the headline. 1% of the text is in quotes. 0 attribution markers (such as "said" or "according to") found.
Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): No Downside
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
aptly
attributed to a speaker, not counted Editorializing
— what Gov. Ron DeSantis aptly described as something akin to anregime
3 points Contentious label
for escalation against the Iranian regime but also, throughout the past 8 - Raises the temperature:
catastrophe
1 point Raises the temperature
of the Republican Party’s midterms catastrophe — what Gov. Ron DeSantis aptlyripped
1 point Raises the temperature
the biggest names who were ripped for not only pushing for escalation
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 | 3 | 132 | 22.7 | whole story | 22.7 | 0 to 40 | 43 |
| Temperature | 2 | 132 | 15.2 | whole story | 15.2 | 0 to 40 | 62 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 132 | 0.0 | whole story | 0.0 | 0 to 20 | not established |
| Headline wording | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | headline only | 0.0 | 0 to 240 | 100 |
Attribution is not established: the story's own text has no attribution and no flagged sourcing phrase, so this layer is left out instead of scoring 100.
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. Experimental: 0 of 4 names and figures in the headline also appear in the text read.
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 43 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 62 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases left out)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 55. 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.
What a reader could check
Cites no one. The text read names no source, cites no document and links to no primary record.
| People named as sources | 0 |
|---|---|
| Unnamed sources | 0 |
| Links to primary records (government, court, filings, PDFs) | 0 |
| Documents cited in the text (a report, bill, ruling, filing) | 0 |
| Checkable specifics (numbers and dates) | 1 |
| Data shown (a table or chart) | no |
| Correction or clarification noted | no |
What a reader could check, counted by published patterns. 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: e294818ab38d4a72. 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.