The arithmetic for one report

What was read

883 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 13 in the headline. 7% of the text is in quotes. 4 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): liberation day, cost of living, two-weeks-to-stop-the-spread. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.

Words found

• Word choice: claimed 1 point Expression of doubt
  further than the WSJ and claimed that Iran and Israel weren’t even
  of course 2 points Editorializing
  discontent with the GOP. But of course the number one cost of living
  of course 2 points Editorializing
  result of the war, is of course the cause of the cost of
  regime attributed to a speaker, not counted Contentious label
  out and argued that the regime in Tehran would collapse and that
  regime 3 points Contentious label
  predicted: gas prices spiked, the regime didn’t fall, and the American public
  of course 2 points Editorializing
  Trump and the GOP? Yes, of course . But the overwhelming factor, the thing
• Raises the temperature: mocked attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
  Loesch in particular was widely mocked on X for her inability to
  deeply 1 point Raises the temperature
  cite. This entire debate is deeply dishonest. The war was never popular,
  catastrophe 1 point Raises the temperature
  people most responsible for this catastrophe insist on gaslighting the American people

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.

Densest stretch: Word choice, words 351 to 550 of 883, with of course, of course, regime; Temperature, words 251 to 450 of 883, with deeply.

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 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 42 + 10)^0.4 × (Temperature 91 + 10)^0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)^0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)^0.1 − 10 = 69. 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

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 Fri, Nov 6, 7:55 AM ET by text extractor version 4. Fingerprint of the text read: 73278aa04fa311c8. 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.

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