The arithmetic for one report
Army To Pay Homage To Over 100-Year-Old Infantry Division With Football Uniforms That Scream America
85Few flagged expressions
What was read
276 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 15 in the headline. 7% of the text is in quotes. 0 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): Ivy Division.
, IV
, Steadfast and Loyal
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
incredible
2 points Editorializing
11 decal. Inspired by the incredible legacy of the #IvySoldier, we will - Raises the temperature:
truly
1 point Raises the temperature
sell merchandise. But this is truly special from Army , some true
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 | 276 | 7.2 | 10.0 (words 1 to 200) | 8.6 | 0 to 40 | 78 |
| Temperature | 1 | 276 | 3.6 | 5.0 (words 77 to 276) | 4.3 | 0 to 40 | 89 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 276 | 0.0 | 0.0 (words 1 to 200) | 0.0 | 0 to 20 | not established |
| Headline wording | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | headline only | 0.0 | 0 to 240 | 100 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 1 to 200 of 276, with incredible
; Temperature, words 77 to 276 of 276, with truly
.
Attribution is not established: the story's own text has no attribution and no flagged sourcing phrase, so this layer is left out instead of scoring 100.
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: 1 of 5 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 78 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 89 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases left out)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 85. 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
Cites no one. The text read names no source, cites no document and links to no primary record.
| 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) | 8 |
| 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: d99e50c9dd815e53. 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.