The arithmetic for one report
79Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
1187 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 10 in the headline. 20% of the text is in quotes, with 1 listed word inside quotes; the headline quotes someone. 1 attribution marker (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): onslaught
.
Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): n
, this beautiful movement
, brokenness
, Know your worth.
, broken political system
, love God
, love neighbor,
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
disgrace
2 points Editorializing
after Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace , but the Democrats already held bothof course
2 points Editorializing
win the presidency in 2028. Of course , it’s far from a foregone conclusion.insisted
2 points Loaded word for "said"
her: Know your worth. She insisted that the night was far moreinsisted
2 points Loaded word for "said"
deftly toward that end. Talarico insisted the Together, the election night speeches - Raises the temperature:
rage
2 points Raises the temperature
and water. There was a rage against the efforts of the ultra-wealthyrage
2 points Raises the temperature
her mind; she expressed her rage against the ways in which Texashuge
1 point Raises the temperature
schools and announced (to a huge cheer) her plan to fire the
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 | 8 | 1187 | 6.7 | 20.0 (words 51 to 250) | 13.4 | 0 to 40 | 67 |
| Temperature | 5 | 1187 | 4.2 | 15.0 (words 651 to 850) | 9.6 | 0 to 40 | 76 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 1187 | 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 51 to 250 of 1187, with disgrace
, of course
; Temperature, words 651 to 850 of 1187, with rage
, huge
.
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: 1 of 1 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 67 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 76 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 79. 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.
The outlet labels this report as opinion, so it does not count toward the outlet's news score.
What a reader could check
| 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) | 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: 8f94352a915a49eb. 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.