The arithmetic for one report
We can’t just ‘move on’: Democrats must hold Trump accountable | Jan-Werner Müller
70Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
948 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 13 in the headline. 0% 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): move on
, kitchen table issues
, commonsense legislation
, impunity culture
, weaponization
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
of course
2 points Editorializing
power: think Jared Kushner. And, of course , Elon Musk. As the political scientistabsurd
2 points Editorializing
pointed out , it is absurd that Elon Musk has appeared moreweaponized
2 points Contentious label
2025, whether they stole and weaponized data, and how exactly his companiesweaponization
2 points Contentious label
nothing else. Republicans will cry weaponization – again. But that simply shows - Raises the temperature:
enormous
1 point Raises the temperature
of defense, who has done enormous damage to US military power. Self-declared
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 | 8 | 948 | 8.4 | 30.0 (words 301 to 500) | 19.2 | 0 to 40 | 52 |
| Temperature | 1 | 948 | 1.1 | 5.0 (words 701 to 900) | 3.0 | 0 to 40 | 92 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 948 | 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 301 to 500 of 948, with of course
, absurd
, weaponized
; Temperature, words 701 to 900 of 948, with enormous
.
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.
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 52 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 92 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases left out)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.
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) | 5 |
| Data shown (a table or chart) | yes |
| 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: bb7500cedf1870ab. 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.