The arithmetic for one report
81Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
792 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 16 in the headline. 2% of the text is in quotes. 2 attribution markers (such as "said" or "according to") found.
Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): contrast election
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- In the headline:
deeply
1 point Raises the temperature
After Deeply Unpleasant Campaign Season, Dems Promise To - Word choice:
disastrous
2 points Editorializing
In the months preceding a disastrous election, the hot controversies in Washington,crazy
attributed to a speaker, not counted Editorializing
purely negative: Don’t vote for crazy Democrats. But the Democrats did theabsolutely
1 point Editorializing
fools won: Troy Jackson just absolutely sucked as a candidate, and Peggyabsolutely
1 point Editorializing
candidate, and Peggy Flanagan just absolutely sucked as a candidate, and Amybrilliant
2 points Editorializing
do something. Look to the brilliant example of Erin Lee in Colorado. - Raises the temperature:
massively
1 point Raises the temperature
a reflecting pool, and a massively overlawyered fight over the removal ofmassive
1 point Raises the temperature
its people. Now, with a massive switch toward Democrat control, the bigmassive
1 point Raises the temperature
hope to be, is a massive bummer. It’s unpleasant to watch, unpleasantdeeply
1 point Raises the temperature
unpleasant to think about, and deeply unpleasant to join. And one ofvery
1 point Raises the temperature
spectacularly miserable politics is that very few sane, smart, decent people want
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 | 6 | 792 | 7.6 | 10.0 (words 1 to 200) | 8.8 | 0 to 40 | 78 |
| Temperature | 5 | 792 | 6.3 | 15.0 (words 201 to 400) | 10.7 | 0 to 40 | 73 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 792 | 0.0 | 0.0 (words 1 to 200) | 0.0 | 0 to 20 | 100 |
| Headline wording | 1 | 25 | 40.0 | headline only | 40.0 | 0 to 240 | 83 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 1 to 200 of 792, with disastrous
; Temperature, words 201 to 400 of 792, with massive
, deeply
, very
.
Shown, not scored: the headline's rate minus the rate of the story's first 80 words is 25.5 points per 1,000 words. Experimental: 0 of 5 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 78 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 73 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 83 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 81. 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.
What a reader could check
| People named as sources | 1 (Camille Paglia) |
|---|---|
| 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) | 0 |
| Checkable specifics (numbers and dates) | 7 |
| 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: 5897b839f6398e4d. 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.