The arithmetic for one report
House Democrats "inundated" with calls telling them not to elect Jeffries speaker
93Few flagged expressions
What was read
691 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 12 in the headline. 14% of the text is in quotes, with 2 listed words inside quotes. 19 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): ridiculous
, absolutely
.
Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): inundated
, receives compensation
, Change Ambassadors
, Bloc.
, Bloc
, yes
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Raises the temperature:
massive
1 point Raises the temperature
set to give them a massive majority of more than 250 seats.deeply
1 point Raises the temperature
half-dozen incoming House Democrats in deeply red seats Thursday who declined tomassive
1 point Raises the temperature
concessions from Jeffries. With a massive majority of dozens of seats, however, - Softens what happened:
raised eyebrows
2 points Softens what happened
Change Ambassadors program, which has raised eyebrows on Capitol Hill. Reality check: Jeffries
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 | 0 | 691 | 0.0 | 0.0 (words 1 to 200) | 0.0 | 0 to 40 | 100 |
| Temperature | 5 | 691 | 7.2 | 10.0 (words 201 to 400) | 8.6 | 0 to 40 | 78 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 691 | 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: Temperature, words 201 to 400 of 691, with raised eyebrows
.
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 100 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 78 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 93. 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: Temperature.
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 sources | 2 (House Democrat, Ezra Levin) |
|---|---|
| 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) | 1 |
| Checkable specifics (numbers and dates) | 21 |
| Data shown (a table or chart) | no |
| Correction or clarification noted | no |
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
- 18-19: not checked (no chamber named in the sentence).
Senate vote counts are checked against the Senate's roll-call list for four days before to one day after publication. Bills are looked up on Congress.gov. House counts are not checked yet. Shown beside the score, never part of it.
Record of this measurement
Method 3.1.0, word-list fingerprint 807a17189402a416, read by text extractor version 4. Fingerprint of the text read: c32175e12c06a75b. 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.