The arithmetic for one report
Packers & Bengals win in style - NFL week nine
82Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
1015 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 8 in the headline. 0% of the text is in quotes. 1 attribution marker (such as "said" or "according to") found.
Words found
- Word choice:
claimed
1 point Expression of doubt
sack of the season, Garrett claimed three and forced a fumble to - Attribution phrases:
reportedly
2 points Unnamed source
They have reportedly taken calls about quarterback Daniel Jonesreportedly
2 points Unnamed source
over Derrick Henry, the Ravens reportedly have no intention of trading the
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 | 1 | 1015 | 1.0 | 5.0 (words 551 to 750) | 3.0 | 0 to 40 | 93 |
| Temperature | 0 | 1015 | 0.0 | 0.0 (words 1 to 200) | 0.0 | 0 to 40 | 100 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 4 | 1015 | 3.9 | 20.0 (words 801 to 1000) | 12.0 | 0 to 20 | 40 |
| Headline wording | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | headline only | 0.0 | 0 to 240 | 100 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 551 to 750 of 1015, with claimed
; Flagged attribution phrases, words 801 to 1000 of 1015, with 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.
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 93 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 100 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 40 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 82. 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: Flagged attribution phrases.
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 (John Harbaugh) |
|---|---|
| Unnamed sources | 2 (67% of all sources found) |
| Links to primary records (government, court, filings, PDFs) | 0 |
| Documents cited in the text (a report, bill, ruling, filing) | 1 |
| Checkable specifics (numbers and dates) | 60 |
| 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: 13997d51efb636d5. 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.