The arithmetic for one report
73Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
697 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 4 in the headline. 2% 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): serialized Netflix drama
, protecting national security
, creating more jobs.
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
purported
2 points Expression of doubt
— even better — a purported agent of the Chinese government. Theit should be noted
2 points Editorializing
lift export restrictions. Alice Huang, it should be noted , was a data center executive inpurportedly
2 points Expression of doubt
company has been investigated for purportedly helping to smuggle Nvidia chips into - Raises the temperature:
jaw-dropping
attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
movie version of Jensen Huang’s jaw-dropping affair basically writes itself. Cast BDenormous
1 point Raises the temperature
the AI boom, giving it enormous influence over the broader economy. theenormous
1 point Raises the temperature
US officials worry that their enormous computing power could help Beijing developvery
1 point Raises the temperature
person or company: One person’s ( very ) personal business can somehow become everybody’s - Attribution phrases:
reportedly
2 points Unnamed source
role of Trump himself, who reportedly knew about Huang’s undercover girlfriend but
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 | 6 | 697 | 8.6 | 20.0 (words 401 to 600) | 14.3 | 0 to 40 | 64 |
| Temperature | 3 | 697 | 4.3 | 10.0 (words 451 to 650) | 7.2 | 0 to 40 | 82 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 2 | 697 | 2.9 | 10.0 (words 1 to 200) | 6.4 | 0 to 20 | 68 |
| Headline wording | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | headline only | 0.0 | 0 to 240 | 100 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 401 to 600 of 697, with it should be noted
, purportedly
; Temperature, words 451 to 650 of 697, with enormous
, very
; Flagged attribution phrases, words 1 to 200 of 697, with 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.
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 64 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 82 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 68 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 73. 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 | 1 (Kyla Scanlon) |
|---|---|
| Unnamed sources | 1 (50% of all sources found) |
| Links to primary records (government, court, filings, PDFs) | 1 foreignaffairs.house.gov |
| Documents cited in the text (a report, bill, ruling, filing) | 0 |
| Checkable specifics (numbers and dates) | 6 |
| 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: 17abc2165fc3f941. 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.