The arithmetic for one report
Brooks and Capehart on Trump's White House shakeup and fallout from the midterms
82Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
1968 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 13 in the headline. 0% of the text is in quotes. 3 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): The Atlantic
, Godfather
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
actually
1 point Editorializing
was a discharge petition to actually have to be enforced. So they - Raises the temperature:
devastating
1 point Raises the temperature
After one of the most devastating midterm defeats in modern history, thestunning
1 point Raises the temperature
How's it all strike you? Stunning . Stunning. He's going for the wartimestunning
1 point Raises the temperature
it all strike you? Stunning. Stunning . He's going for the wartime consigliere,furious
2 points Raises the temperature
unleashed, and he was just furious about what's happened to the party,destroyed
1 point Raises the temperature
the party, how it's been destroyed . He called this election a near-extinctionmassive
1 point Raises the temperature
2010, which we considered this massive midterm setback for the president. Thishuge
1 point Raises the temperature
weaker candidates, seven points, just huge margins. And so the Republican --deeply
1 point Raises the temperature
surrounding Hegseth's leadership and the deeply unpopular war with Iran. How dototally
1 point Raises the temperature
can tear down the arch. Totally worth. Totally worth it. Well, let'stotally
1 point Raises the temperature
down the arch. Totally worth. Totally worth it. Well, let's talk aboutvery
1 point Raises the temperature
from Georgia would be a very formidable presidential candidate. So they have
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 | 1 | 1968 | 0.5 | 5.0 (words 751 to 950) | 2.8 | 0 to 40 | 93 |
| Temperature | 12 | 1968 | 6.1 | 30.0 (words 101 to 300) | 18.0 | 0 to 40 | 55 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 1968 | 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 751 to 950 of 1968, with actually
; Temperature, words 101 to 300 of 1968, with devastating
, stunning
, stunning
, furious
, destroyed
.
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 93 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 55 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 82. 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 | 1 (Tucker Carlson) |
|---|---|
| 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) | 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: 2fa98b4b8c60b238. 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.