The arithmetic for one report
Democrats Try To Ruin John Eastman’s Life And Career While Promising To Do The Same To You
75Moderate density of flagged expressions
What was read
879 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 17 in the headline. 0% of the text is in quotes. 0 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): lying.
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
disastrous
2 points Editorializing
injustice and prevent a potentially disastrous precedent. Last month, the Supreme Courtdisastrous
2 points Editorializing
California from setting a potentially disastrous precedent. Eastman has one of theprestigious
1 point Puffery
are two of the most prestigious clerkships in America for conservative attorneys.witch hunt
2 points Contentious label
unindicted co-conspirator in his far-reaching witch hunt . Arizona attempted to jail him for - Raises the temperature:
massive
1 point Raises the temperature
has waged lawfare on a massive scale for decades. But the Eastman
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 | 7 | 879 | 8.0 | 25.0 (words 1 to 200) | 16.5 | 0 to 40 | 59 |
| Temperature | 1 | 879 | 1.1 | 5.0 (words 151 to 350) | 3.1 | 0 to 40 | 92 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 879 | 0.0 | 0.0 (words 1 to 200) | 0.0 | 0 to 20 | not established |
| Headline wording | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | headline only | 0.0 | 0 to 240 | 100 |
Densest stretch: Word choice, words 1 to 200 of 879, with disastrous
, disastrous
, prestigious
; Temperature, words 151 to 350 of 879, with massive
.
Attribution is not established: the story's own text has no attribution and no flagged sourcing phrase, so this layer is left out instead of scoring 100.
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 5 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 59 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 92 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases left out)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 75. 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) | 1 www.americanbar.org |
| 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: de565d60adf41153. 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.