The arithmetic for one report
Trump publicly slams JD Vance for scathing midterms rant: ‘A lot of people didn’t like his comments’
79Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
165 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 17 in the headline. 66% of the text is in quotes, with 2 listed words inside quotes. 9 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): crazy
, very
.
Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): establishment
, 60 Minutes
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- In the headline:
slams
1 point Raises the temperature
Trump publicly slams JD Vance for scathing midterms rant:scathing
1 point Raises the temperature
publicly slams JD Vance for scathing midterms rant: ‘A lot of people - Word choice:
admitted
2 points Loaded word for "said"
his second in command, Trump admitted that the president told reporters before - Raises the temperature:
slammed
1 point Raises the temperature
President Trump on Sunday publicly slammed Vice President JD Vance for hisscathing
attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
President JD Vance for his scathing midterms rant that blamed the war
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 | 165 | 12.1 | whole story | 12.1 | 0 to 40 | 70 |
| Temperature | 1 | 165 | 6.1 | whole story | 6.1 | 0 to 40 | 85 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 165 | 0.0 | whole story | 0.0 | 0 to 20 | 100 |
| Headline wording | 2 | 25 | 80.0 | headline only | 80.0 | 0 to 240 | 67 |
Shown, not scored: the headline's rate minus the rate of the story's first 80 words is 80.1 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 70 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 85 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 67 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 79. 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 | 0 |
|---|---|
| Unnamed sources | 0 |
| 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) | 3 |
| 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: a16cfa9db30a3c60. 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.