The arithmetic for one report
74Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
1067 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 20 in the headline. 4% of the text is in quotes. 3 attribution markers (such as "said" or "according to") found.
Words found
- Word choice:
heroic
2 points Editorializing
or safeguards, powered by their heroic strongman leader, a political genius effortlesslygenius
2 points Editorializing
heroic strongman leader, a political genius effortlessly able to impose his willbrilliant
2 points Editorializing
out, this small band of brilliant clairvoyants somehow failed to anticipate theactually
1 point Editorializing
minister who in retrospect may actually have been a semi-sentient chatbot allof course
2 points Editorializing
democratic accountability, or less? And, of course , in these febrile and fragile times - Raises the temperature:
extremely
1 point Raises the temperature
we now know was an extremely busy schedule. Over a delicious mealdeeply
1 point Raises the temperature
anticipate the possibility that the deeply unpopular man they were clasping inchaos
2 points Raises the temperature
their altruistic wet dreams into chaos . After all, last week’s midterms wererebuke
experimental, shown but not counted Raises the temperature
midterms were not simply a rebuke to one man or one party,devastating
1 point Raises the temperature
markets had responded with a devastating sell-off of tech stocks , thepanic
1 point Raises the temperature
the financial markets into existential panic ? Anyone able to join the dotsvery
1 point Raises the temperature
you are likely to hear very little opposition to any of this,enormous
1 point Raises the temperature
of it? While Musk spends enormous chunks of his fortune trying (and
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 | 9 | 1067 | 8.4 | 20.0 (words 1 to 200) | 14.2 | 0 to 40 | 64 |
| Temperature | 8 | 1067 | 7.5 | 20.0 (words 301 to 500) | 13.7 | 0 to 40 | 66 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 1067 | 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: Word choice, words 1 to 200 of 1067, with heroic
, genius
; Temperature, words 301 to 500 of 1067, with deeply
, chaos
, devastating
.
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: 2 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 64 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 66 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 74. 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.
The outlet labels this report as opinion, so it does not count toward the outlet's news score.
What a reader could check
| People named as sources | 1 (Goldman Sachs) |
|---|---|
| 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) | 9 |
| Data shown (a table or chart) | yes |
| 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: ab09abfe26512e23. 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.