The arithmetic for one report
Inside the Somali mall safe haven where Ilhan Omar reappeared after feds raided her DC home
82Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
1189 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 16 in the headline. 13% of the text is in quotes, with 6 listed words inside quotes. 10 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): crooks
, very
, very
, very
, extremely
, very
.
Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): security.
, whores.
, School of Kings,
, No Kings
, American dream,
, CREEP
, FAKE NAME,
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
clearly
2 points Editorializing
him. The jovial character and clearly well-liked by his staff and knowninfamous
attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
a brief stay at the infamous Federal Correctional Institution, Leavenworth in Kansas,bragged
2 points Loaded word for "said"
in Kansas, almost boastfully. Sabri bragged that the siloed Somali mall is - Raises the temperature:
fury
2 points Raises the temperature
Digital) SOMALIS IN MINNESOTA UNLEASH FURY ON TRUMP AFTER FEDS RAID ILHANstunning
attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
News Digital) ILHAN OMAR ISSUES STUNNING ADMISSION WHEN CONFRONTED WITH BROTHER MARRIAGEchaos
2 points Raises the temperature
THREW THE SOMALI-BORN PROGRESSIVE INTO CHAOS Prominently featured among the stores inmassive
attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
said, apparently nodding to the massive fraud scandals that have plagued the - Attribution phrases:
according to sources
2 points Unnamed source
is Ilhan Nur Said Elmia, according to sources familiar with the criminal investigation into
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 | 4 | 1189 | 3.4 | 10.0 (words 751 to 950) | 6.7 | 0 to 40 | 83 |
| Temperature | 4 | 1189 | 3.4 | 10.0 (words 1 to 200) | 6.7 | 0 to 40 | 83 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 2 | 1189 | 1.7 | 10.0 (words 201 to 400) | 5.8 | 0 to 20 | 71 |
| Headline wording | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | headline only | 0.0 | 0 to 240 | 100 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 751 to 950 of 1189, with clearly
; Temperature, words 1 to 200 of 1189, with fury
; Flagged attribution phrases, words 201 to 400 of 1189, with according to sources
.
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 83 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 83 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 71 + 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 5.0 points.
What a reader could check
| People named as sources | 1 (Fox News Digital) |
|---|---|
| Unnamed sources | 1 (50% 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) | 16 |
| 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: 799c14d6db6641ac. 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.