The arithmetic for one report
Four midterms takeaways for 2028 White House race
87Few flagged expressions
What was read
1034 words in the outlet's own voice, plus 8 in the headline. 12% of the text is in quotes. 13 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): Blue Dog Caucus
, safe
. Since method 3.1.0 their words count as the outlet's own.
Words found
- Word choice:
disastrous
2 points Editorializing
in Iran that was politically disastrous for his party. he wrote onclaimed
1 point Expression of doubt
of the Democratic Party have claimed victory from the results as eachclaimed
1 point Expression of doubt
primaries and Moderate Democrats, however, claimed victories across the country, with the - Raises the temperature:
huge
1 point Raises the temperature
was re-elected in 2012 despite huge Republican gains in 2010. No onescathing
attributed to a speaker, not counted Raises the temperature
Vance walks Trump tightrope with scathing election critique blaming Iran war Bothscathing
1 point Raises the temperature
ANALYSIS: Vance walks tightrope with scathing critique on Iran
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 | 4 | 1034 | 3.9 | 15.0 (words 451 to 650) | 9.4 | 0 to 40 | 76 |
| Temperature | 2 | 1034 | 1.9 | 5.0 (words 1 to 200) | 3.5 | 0 to 40 | 91 |
| Flagged attribution phrases | 0 | 1034 | 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 451 to 650 of 1034, with disastrous
, claimed
; Temperature, words 1 to 200 of 1034, with huge
.
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: 1 of 1 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 76 + 10)0.4 × (Temperature 91 + 10)0.3 × (Flagged attribution phrases 100 + 10)0.2 × (Headline wording 100 + 10)0.1 − 10 = 87. 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 | 4 (Amirah Siquierah, Christina Pascucci, Karen Beckwith, Adam Green) |
|---|---|
| Unnamed sources | 0 (0% of all sources found) |
| 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) | 20 |
| 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: 6f4d18fadbb35742. 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.