The arithmetic for one report
Whose fault is the GOP’s cataclysmic defeat? 3 theories are gaining steam on the right.
88Few flagged expressions
What was read
1175 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 15 in the headline. 17% of the text is in quotes. 10 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): enforcement
, amnesty
, everyone knows
, America First
, undermine
, big, big drag,
, unnecessary
, It’s about policy.
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
claimed
1 point Expression of doubt
Vance wrote. What’s more, he claimed that everyone knows that is theactually
1 point Editorializing
with an agenda that can actually address those voter concerns is more - Raises the temperature:
deeply
1 point Raises the temperature
America First faction that was deeply skeptical of US involvement in foreigncatastrophe
negated, not counted Raises the temperature
they did not cause economic catastrophe or raise prices as much as - Attribution phrases:
reportedly
2 points Unnamed source
Trump lawyer Alina Habba for reportedly getting a $10 million a year
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 | 2 | 1175 | 1.7 | 5.0 (words 151 to 350) | 3.4 | 0 to 40 | 92 |
| Temperature | 1 | 1175 | 0.9 | 5.0 (words 201 to 400) | 2.9 | 0 to 40 | 93 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 2 | 1175 | 1.7 | 10.0 (words 601 to 800) | 5.9 | 0 to 20 | 71 |
| Headline wording | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | headline only | 0.0 | 0 to 240 | 100 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 151 to 350 of 1175, with claimed
; Temperature, words 201 to 400 of 1175, with deeply
; Flagged attribution phrases, words 601 to 800 of 1175, with 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.
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 92 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 93 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 71 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 88. 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 | 1 (100% 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) | 6 |
| 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: d4bd391938289c71. 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.