The arithmetic for one report
We have a new shadow president – and he can play Trump like a fiddle | Arwa Mahdawi
72Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
873 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 16 in the headline. 21% of the text is in quotes, with 1 listed word inside quotes. 9 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): extremist
.
Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): tiny country
, a domestic terrorist.
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Insults found but not counted: 1 (buffoons
). Insult words are experimental until the reader panel rates them, so they are shown and not scored.
Words found
- Word choice:
of course
2 points Editorializing
a road to Damascus moment? Of course not; this is the world’s leastamazing
2 points Editorializing
usually incoherent president managed the amazing feat of speaking a little bitadmitted
2 points Loaded word for "said"
have gone too far, he admitted to 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat.arguably
1 point Editorializing
and oversized influence, Miller had arguably been doing the job already. Unlikebuffoons
experimental, shown but not counted Insult or name-calling
already. Unlike some of the buffoons that Trump surrounds himself with, Millerterrorist
3 points Contentious label
Miller branded him a domestic terrorist . Even as a student at Santaarguably
1 point Editorializing
chief of staff; he is arguably the shadow president. And while Trump - Raises the temperature:
rebuke
experimental, shown but not counted Raises the temperature
woke? Has his party’s historic rebuke finally made him reflect on hisshocking
1 point Raises the temperature
arsonist. While Miller’s promotion was shocking , it should not have been awar on
attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
parents. And he has declared war on Americans who do not subscribe tovery
1 point Raises the temperature
new position has made it very clear to Democrats that there is
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 | 11 | 873 | 12.6 | 30.0 (words 1 to 200) | 21.3 | 0 to 40 | 47 |
| Temperature | 2 | 873 | 2.3 | 5.0 (words 101 to 300) | 3.6 | 0 to 40 | 91 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 873 | 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 873, with of course
, amazing
, admitted
; Temperature, words 101 to 300 of 873, with shocking
.
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: 0 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 47 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 91 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 72. 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) | 1 chc.house.gov |
| Documents cited in the text (a report, bill, ruling, filing) | 0 |
| Checkable specifics (numbers and dates) | 7 |
| 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: b7a7d10efe3bb34d. 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.