The arithmetic for one report
Report: Anti-Israel Former Dictator Nicolas Maduro Studying Judaism, Met with a Rabbi in Prison
72Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
639 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 14 in the headline. 22% of the text is in quotes. 7 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): First Combatant
, real Jew,
, election
, love
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
claimed
1 point Expression of doubt
pointed out, Maduro has publicly claimed that he has Jewish heritage —regime
attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
officials of the Venezuelan socialist regime , the deposed dictator’s ancestors were individualsregime
attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
within the context of the regime ’s decades-long animosity towards the nation’s Catholicsham
attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
year later, during the 2024 sham presidential election campaign, pro-socialist Evangelical gpurported
2 points Expression of doubt
praised the dictator for his purported Some of the pro-regime Evangelical groups,sham
attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
during the 2018 and 2024 sham presidential elections. On Sunday, the sameregime
attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
referring to a March 2024 regime event alongside several pro-regime Evangelical pastorsclaimed
1 point Expression of doubt
the through which, the dictator claimed , The deposed dictator also called upon - Attribution phrases:
reportedly
2 points Unnamed source
The trial against Maduro reportedly remains on track to begin inreportedly
2 points Unnamed source
People close to Maduro, however, reportedly affirmed that he had not expressed
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 | 639 | 6.3 | 15.0 (words 401 to 600) | 10.6 | 0 to 40 | 73 |
| Temperature | 0 | 639 | 0.0 | 0.0 (words 1 to 200) | 0.0 | 0 to 40 | 100 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 4 | 639 | 6.3 | 20.0 (words 51 to 250) | 13.1 | 0 to 20 | 34 |
| Headline wording | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | headline only | 0.0 | 0 to 240 | 100 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 401 to 600 of 639, with purported
, claimed
; Flagged attribution phrases, words 51 to 250 of 639, with reportedly
, reportedly
.
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 2 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 73 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 100 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 34 + 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: Flagged attribution phrases.
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 | 0 |
|---|---|
| Unnamed sources | 2 (100% of all sources found) |
| Links to primary records (government, court, filings, PDFs) | 1 www.justice.gov |
| Documents cited in the text (a report, bill, ruling, filing) | 1 |
| Checkable specifics (numbers and dates) | 13 |
| 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: 1b217c94c3f1ac0d. 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.