The arithmetic for one report
Exclusive: Trump Administration Carrying Out War on Asylum Fraud After Biden's 'Wide Open Borders'
72Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
481 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 14 in the headline. 11% of the text is in quotes. 5 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): Wide Open Borders
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- In the headline:
war on
2 points Raises the temperature
Exclusive: Trump Administration Carrying Out War on Asylum Fraud After Biden's Wide Open - Word choice:
admitted
2 points Loaded word for "said"
deported in September after she admitted to supporting her son and son-in-law’sterrorist
3 points Contentious label
plan to carry out a terrorist attack on Election Day in 2024.illegal aliens
attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
have led to arrests of illegal aliens with criminal records like 27-year-old Edwin - Raises the temperature:
war on
2 points Raises the temperature
(USCIS) is carrying out a war on asylum fraud, officials tell Breitbart News,
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 | 5 | 481 | 10.4 | 25.0 (words 1 to 200) | 17.7 | 0 to 40 | 56 |
| Temperature | 2 | 481 | 4.2 | 10.0 (words 1 to 200) | 7.1 | 0 to 40 | 82 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 481 | 0.0 | 0.0 (words 1 to 200) | 0.0 | 0 to 20 | 100 |
| Headline wording | 2 | 25 | 80.0 | headline only | 80.0 | 0 to 240 | 67 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 1 to 200 of 481, with admitted
, terrorist
; Temperature, words 1 to 200 of 481, with war on
.
Shown, not scored: the headline's rate minus the rate of the story's first 80 words is 117.9 points per 1,000 words. Experimental: 0 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 56 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 82 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 67 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 72. 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 (Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Breitbart News) |
|---|---|
| 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: 75a969f06eb5789c. 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.