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Axios

The arithmetic for one report

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits affair, board to launch investigation

Axios · · headline and summary only (the page refused automated reading)

85Few flagged expressions

What was read

191 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 10 in the headline. 28% of the text is in quotes. 9 attribution markers (such as "said" or "according to") found.

Words found

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.

LayerPointsWordsWhole-story rateDensest 200 wordsRate usedScaleScore
Word choice219110.5whole story10.50 to 4074
Temperature01910.0whole story0.00 to 40100
Flagged attribution phrases01910.0whole story0.00 to 20100
Headline wording22580.0headline only80.00 to 24067

Shown, not scored: the headline's rate minus the rate of the story's first 80 words is 175.0 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 74 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 100 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 67 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 85. 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 sources0
Unnamed sources0
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)0
Data shown (a table or chart)no
Correction or clarification notedno

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: 74eab7d8a9b3da9d. 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.

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