The arithmetic for one report
ASRA NOMANI: El-Sayed glides into role as rock star of the hard left's red-green alliance
82Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
2966 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 15 in the headline. 24% of the text is in quotes, with 4 listed words inside quotes. 34 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): iconic
, happily
, erupted
, fiercely
.
Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): CONNECT Empowerment Summit,
, red-green
, red-green
, red
, green
, uncommitted
, JD, habibi,
, Habibi
, movement
, Andoni predicted,
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
far-left
3 points Contentious label
Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink, a far-left nonprofit, paced in the hallway in - Raises the temperature:
major blow
experimental, shown but not counted Raises the temperature
News Digital) ABDUL EL-SAYED DELIVERS MAJOR BLOW TO GOP IN MICHIGAN AFTER BRUISINGdramatic
1 point Raises the temperature
cultural forces surrounding the El-Sayed's dramatic rise, buoyed by an increasingly powerfulerupted
2 points Raises the temperature
side door, beaming. The ballroom erupted in zaghrouta , high-pitched celebratory ululationsdestroyed
1 point Raises the temperature
Zionist. But Habibi Abdul, you destroyed them all. You destroyed AIPAC twice,destroyed
1 point Raises the temperature
you destroyed them all. You destroyed AIPAC twice, He showed them a - Attribution phrases:
reportedly
2 points Unnamed source
Muslim Brotherhood, although his family reportedly has ties to the organization and
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 | 2966 | 1.0 | 15.0 (words 151 to 350) | 8.0 | 0 to 40 | 80 |
| Temperature | 5 | 2966 | 1.7 | 10.0 (words 1051 to 1250) | 5.8 | 0 to 40 | 85 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 2 | 2966 | 0.7 | 10.0 (words 401 to 600) | 5.3 | 0 to 20 | 73 |
| Headline wording | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | headline only | 0.0 | 0 to 240 | 100 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 151 to 350 of 2966, with far-left
; Temperature, words 1051 to 1250 of 2966, with erupted
; Flagged attribution phrases, words 401 to 600 of 2966, with reportedly
.
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 80 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 85 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 73 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 82. 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
| People named as sources | 6 (Emcee Ameera David, El-Sayed, Will Langhorne, Al-Bidawi, Fox News Digital, El-Sayed's) |
|---|---|
| Unnamed sources | 1 (14% of all sources found) |
| Links to primary records (government, court, filings, PDFs) | 1 www.fec.gov |
| Documents cited in the text (a report, bill, ruling, filing) | 0 |
| Checkable specifics (numbers and dates) | 56 |
| 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: 8edc87cc5d9c0367. 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.