The arithmetic for one report
Trump’s shattered ‘mirror world’: American voters roundly reject president’s alternate reality
92Few flagged expressions
What was read
1324 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 11 in the headline. 29% of the text is in quotes, with 3 listed words inside quotes. 37 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): actually
, very
, mocked
.
Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): mirror world
, mirror world
, golden age
, Narcissism 101
, outright hostility
, something completely different
, golden age
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
claimed
1 point Expression of doubt
President claimed to have ushered in a goldenclaimed
1 point Expression of doubt
US has become . he claimed in an extraordinary speech at Washington’scontroversial
1 point Contentious label
Miller, one of the most controversial figures in his administration, to chief - Raises the temperature:
onslaught
attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
his party over the deportation onslaught into the state, said he knewepic
1 point Raises the temperature
short, , he added. After epic losses, Republican party leaders are searchingmassive
attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
to change their minds. The massive losses could, in time, mean there
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 | 1324 | 2.3 | 10.0 (words 1 to 200) | 6.1 | 0 to 40 | 85 |
| Temperature | 1 | 1324 | 0.8 | 5.0 (words 701 to 900) | 2.9 | 0 to 40 | 93 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 1324 | 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 1324, with claimed
, claimed
; Temperature, words 701 to 900 of 1324, with epic
.
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 85 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 93 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 92. 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 | 7 (Jim Conrad, Ron Miller, As Stacey, Bob Brooks, Joe Pitts, Tom Galvin, Paul Bentz) |
|---|---|
| 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) | 0 |
| Checkable specifics (numbers and dates) | 8 |
| Data shown (a table or chart) | yes |
| 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: 5304832d3259bbd2. 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.