The arithmetic for one report

What was read

465 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 11 in the headline. 36% of the text is in quotes, with 2 listed words inside quotes. 2 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): claimed, regime.

Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): stagnated., purge. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.

Words found

• In the headline: terrorist attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
  El-Sayed blasted killing of Al-Qaeda terrorist US citizen in resurfaced article
  blasted 1 point Raises the temperature
  El-Sayed blasted killing of Al-Qaeda terrorist US citizen
• Word choice: ironically 2 points Editorializing
  Salafist Al-Nour bloc notched 24%. Ironically , El-Sayed, known for his lefty views
  notorious 1 point Contentious label
  having ties. The Brotherhood is notorious for its radical offshoots such as
  terrorist 3 points Contentious label
  and is designated as a terrorist organization in multiple Middle Eastern countries
  claimed 1 point Expression of doubt
  2011 Egyptian revolution, El-Sayed’s half-sister claimed his family was very supportive of
  infamous 1 point Contentious label
  police. Morsi later mounted an infamous crackdown on journalists and protesters, which
  insists 2 points Loaded word for "said"
  him. The incoming senator now insists he disavows the Brotherhood and has
• Raises the temperature: ripped 1 point Raises the temperature
  Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed once ripped into former President Barack Obama’s drone
  dramatic 1 point Raises the temperature
  al-Qaeda leader and had a dramatic warning for the Muslim Brotherhood, resurfaced
  very attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
  half-sister claimed his family was very supportive of the Brotherhood. El-Sayed also
  mocked 1 point Raises the temperature
  disavows the Brotherhood and has mocked the scrutiny he received during the

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.

Densest stretch: Word choice, words 251 to 450 of 465, with notorious, terrorist, claimed, infamous, insists; Temperature, words 1 to 200 of 465, with ripped, dramatic.

Shown, not scored: the headline's rate minus the rate of the story's first 80 words is 65.9 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 23 + 10)^0.4 × (Temperature 79 + 10)^0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)^0.2 × (Headline wording 83 + 10)^0.1 − 10 = 53. 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

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 Sun, Nov 8, 3:40 PM ET by text extractor version 4. Fingerprint of the text read: 6a7dd61243f86528. 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.

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