The arithmetic for one report
How Democrats can make good on their new mandate
70Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
1454 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 9 in the headline. 1% of the text is in quotes. 3 attribution markers (such as "said" or "according to") found.
Words found
- Word choice:
actually
1 point Editorializing
exactly batted down . America, Actually host Astead Herndon spoke with Mooreactually
1 point Editorializing
show, so listen to America, Actually wherever you get your podcasts oractually
1 point Editorializing
folks’ cost of living concerns? Actually move fast to fix the things.insane
2 points Editorializing
history is because it is insane when you’re watching the fact thatactually
1 point Editorializing
and knowing how much that’s actually going to impact [them]. So therestupid
2 points Editorializing
just need to stop fighting stupid wars. There’s no governor that isactually
1 point Editorializing
place that we know that actually work. I wonder what universal healthcareactually
1 point Editorializing
Maryland, we’ve been able to actually come up with platforms through ouractually
1 point Editorializing
Cost of Care Model. We’re [actually] working with our hospitals. Our hospitalsactually
1 point Editorializing
watching the cost of healthcare actually go down, [while] also being ableactually
1 point Editorializing
Here in our state, we actually cut taxes for the middle class.actually
negated, not counted Editorializing
a Congress that is not actually asserting its authority to be ableremarkably
2 points Editorializing
right answer. I think that’s remarkably dangerous. I don’t think that theactually
1 point Editorializing
that’s why in Maryland, we’ve actually put together guidelines as to how - Raises the temperature:
very
1 point Raises the temperature
this big tent? I am very concerned about what we’ve seen from
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 | 16 | 1454 | 11.0 | 35.0 (words 351 to 550) | 23.0 | 0 to 40 | 42 |
| Temperature | 1 | 1454 | 0.7 | 5.0 (words 1001 to 1200) | 2.8 | 0 to 40 | 93 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 1454 | 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 351 to 550 of 1454, with insane
, actually
, stupid
, actually
, actually
; Temperature, words 1001 to 1200 of 1454, with very
.
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 1 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 42 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 93 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 70. 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) | 6 |
| 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: e8de7dcae39c6504. 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.