The arithmetic for one report
Republicans' grip on Texas is on the line in a close US Senate race between Paxton, Talarico
82Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
687 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 17 in the headline. 2% of the text is in quotes. 3 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): nonbinary.
, biblical grounds.
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
corrupt
2 points Editorializing
as the face of a corrupt political system that allows billionaires tofar-left
3 points Contentious label
on framing Talarico as too far-left for Texas. Paxton, considered a cultureclaimed
1 point Expression of doubt
the 2020 election after Trump claimed without evidence that it was stolen. - Raises the temperature:
scrambling
experimental, shown but not counted Raises the temperature
state on Tuesday and Republicans scrambling to defend both a pivotal strongholdhammered
1 point Raises the temperature
him on biblical grounds. Talarico hammered Paxton on those ethical questions in
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 | 687 | 8.7 | 20.0 (words 488 to 687) | 14.4 | 0 to 40 | 64 |
| Temperature | 1 | 687 | 1.5 | 5.0 (words 251 to 450) | 3.2 | 0 to 40 | 92 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 687 | 0.0 | 0.0 (words 1 to 200) | 0.0 | 0 to 20 | 100 |
| Headline wording | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | headline only | 0.0 | 0 to 240 | 100 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 488 to 687 of 687, with far-left
, claimed
; Temperature, words 251 to 450 of 687, with hammered
.
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 92 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 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: 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 | 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) | 8 |
| 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: a1876f48923be44e. 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.