The arithmetic for one report
HK Pro-Democracy Activist Joshua Wong Sentenced to 10 More Years on 'Foreign Collusion' Charges
15High density of flagged expressions
What was read
547 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 14 in the headline. 29% of the text is in quotes, with 1 listed word inside quotes. 8 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): outraged
.
Scare quotes (a phrase of one to three words in quotation marks with no speaker in the same sentence): Foreign Collusion
, foreign collusion charges.
, masterminds
, ring-leaders
, subversion
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
regime
3 points Contentious label
activists during the communist Chinese regime ’s brutal anti-democracy crackdown, enacted under itstyrannical
2 points Contentious label
anti-democracy crackdown, enacted under its tyrannical charges, with an expected January 2027regime
3 points Contentious label
Kong and the Beijing communist regime . The new sentence was also issuedregime
3 points Contentious label
within the framework of the regime ’s NSL. Wong is now expected toregime
attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
rights sanctions on the Beijing regime over the brutal crackdown of theregime
3 points Contentious label
she said. The Communist Chinese regime has extensively used its tyrannical NSLtyrannical
2 points Contentious label
regime has extensively used its tyrannical NSL since 2020 to brutally persecutedubious
2 points Expression of doubt
sentences on subversion and other dubious and highly-questionable charges. In September , - Raises the temperature:
brutal
1 point Raises the temperature
during the communist Chinese regime’s brutal anti-democracy crackdown, enacted under its tyrannicalbrutal
attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
the Beijing regime over the brutal crackdown of the pro-democracy movement. Saidbrutal
attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
2020, right amid that year’s brutal anti-democracy movement crackdown. Prosecutors reportedly b - Attribution phrases:
reportedly
2 points Unnamed source
Said alleged actions, the prosecutors reportedly affirmed, took place between July andreportedly
2 points Unnamed source
Prosecutors reportedly branded both Wong and Law asreportedly
2 points Unnamed source
High Court Judge William Tam reportedly said while delivering the sentence Judgereportedly
2 points Unnamed source
by the judge. the judge reportedly affirmed.reportedly
2 points Unnamed source
The activist reportedly waved to his supporters gathered outside
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 | 18 | 547 | 32.9 | 55.0 (words 1 to 200) | 44.0 | 0 to 40 | 0 |
| Temperature | 1 | 547 | 1.8 | 5.0 (words 1 to 200) | 3.4 | 0 to 40 | 91 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 10 | 547 | 18.3 | 50.0 (words 201 to 400) | 34.1 | 0 to 20 | 0 |
| Headline wording | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | headline only | 0.0 | 0 to 240 | 100 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 1 to 200 of 547, with regime
, tyrannical
, regime
, regime
; Temperature, words 1 to 200 of 547, with brutal
; Flagged attribution phrases, words 201 to 400 of 547, with reportedly
, reportedly
, reportedly
, reportedly
, reportedly
.
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: 3 of 4 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 0 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 91 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 0 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 15. 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 | 2 (Kong Free Press, Frances Hui) |
|---|---|
| Unnamed sources | 5 (71% 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) | 13 |
| 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: 2a002ff27421715c. 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.