The arithmetic for one report
Trump on 60 Minutes Dangles Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Working in Jobs
79Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
782 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 12 in the headline. 5% of the text is in quotes. 6 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): comprehensive
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- In the headline:
illegal aliens
3 points Contentious label
60 Minutes Dangles Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Working in Jobs - Word choice:
actually
1 point Editorializing
to stay. That’s something that’s actually doable … When you go intoso-called
2 points Expression of doubt
the hope of getting a so-called big comprehensive amnesty that would lock - Raises the temperature:
sweeping
1 point Raises the temperature
raise their hopes for a sweeping amnesty deal that would lock inhuge
1 point Raises the temperature
encourage employers to protect their huge illegal-migrant workforces, so damaging the wagevery
1 point Raises the temperature
up the border. I get very high marks for getting the bad - Softens what happened:
pushback
2 points Softens what happened
the proposals amid the public pushback from his pro-enforcement base of ordinary
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 | 3 | 782 | 3.8 | 10.0 (words 451 to 650) | 6.9 | 0 to 40 | 83 |
| Temperature | 5 | 782 | 6.4 | 15.0 (words 151 to 350) | 10.7 | 0 to 40 | 73 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 782 | 0.0 | 0.0 (words 1 to 200) | 0.0 | 0 to 20 | 100 |
| Headline wording | 3 | 25 | 120.0 | headline only | 120.0 | 0 to 240 | 50 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 451 to 650 of 782, with so-called
; Temperature, words 151 to 350 of 782, with sweeping
, pushback
.
Shown, not scored: the headline's rate minus the rate of the story's first 80 words is 250.0 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 83 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 73 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 50 + 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: Temperature.
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) | 11 |
| 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: a4471ef46d4e07ca. 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.