The arithmetic for one report
Turns Out, Dangling Amnesty In Front Of Illegals Won’t Win Over Minorities To The Republican Party
31High density of flagged expressions
What was read
997 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 16 in the headline. 7% of the text is in quotes. 7 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): temporary
, change course
, amnesty
, ICE
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
illegal aliens
3 points Contentious label
winning elections: offer amnesty to illegal aliens . Well, eight Republicans who co-sponsored herillegal aliens
3 points Contentious label
create a seven-year program for illegal aliens who evaded our laws before Dec.illegal aliens
3 points Contentious label
convictions could stay, while other illegal aliens can have their deportation proceedings haltedillegal aliens
3 points Contentious label
halted while applications are pending. Illegal aliens already deported can apply to returnadmitted
2 points Loaded word for "said"
provisions of the bill. Salazar admitted her legislation is the launch padillegal aliens
3 points Contentious label
pitch effectively suggested that if illegal aliens get to stay, Republicans would getillegal aliens
3 points Contentious label
NEXT: Democrats Promise To Turn Illegal Aliens Into Voters ] But Reps. Mikeillegal aliens
3 points Contentious label
backlash on the deportation of illegal aliens as well as the economy andillegal aliens
3 points Contentious label
to power runs through legalizing illegal aliens . Hispanic voters in U.S. House racesillegal aliens
3 points Contentious label
allies literally offered legalization of illegal aliens and still lost. In fact, what’sillegal aliens
attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
because doing so could anger illegal aliens ’ voting friends and relatives. The proposedillegal aliens
3 points Contentious label
then is to let those illegal aliens stay. But if the vote ofillegal aliens
3 points Contentious label
the friends and family of illegal aliens requires Republicans to literally abandon the - Raises the temperature:
backlash
1 point Raises the temperature
, Salazar blamed the Hispanic backlash on the deportation of illegal alienssweeping
1 point Raises the temperature
policies and politicians, with socialists sweeping races nationwide thanks in part to
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 | 35 | 997 | 35.1 | 85.0 (words 51 to 250) | 60.1 | 0 to 40 | 0 |
| Temperature | 2 | 997 | 2.0 | 5.0 (words 301 to 500) | 3.5 | 0 to 40 | 91 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 997 | 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 51 to 250 of 997, with illegal aliens
, illegal aliens
, illegal aliens
, admitted
, illegal aliens
, illegal aliens
; Temperature, words 301 to 500 of 997, with backlash
.
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: 0 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 0 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 91 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 31. 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) | 1 problemsolverscaucus.house.gov |
| Documents cited in the text (a report, bill, ruling, filing) | 0 |
| Checkable specifics (numbers and dates) | 16 |
| 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: 6bbce7a81d892e67. 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.