Method / Indicator

Adjectives

Adjectives that describe rather than report, per 100 words of the text. Hover or tap to see each one in the text. Words that carry a fact, such as "former" or "federal", and words inside quotations are not counted.

0 none heavily descriptive 6 per 100 words

The number beside a story is how many adjectives describe rather than report for every 100 words of its text, so a long article is not marked down for being long; how many there are in all is said beside it. The bar is full at 6 per 100 words or more.

What raises it

• Adjectives that describe rather than report: "costly", "embattled", "heated"

What is never counted

• Adjectives carrying a fact ("former", "federal", "12-year-old")
• Adjectives inside quotations
• Length: the reading is per 100 words

When it appears beside a story

Shown beside every story we score.

Highest in the last week

• 4 Oct, 00:30 What does FDM stand for in 3D printing and how does it work? Adjectives 7.1 per 100 words
• 30 Sept, 12:45 · Mexico Chihuahua becomes National Guard sensation Adjectives 7.0 per 100 words
• 2 Oct, 05:29 · Melbourne, VIC South-east faces flooding, storms after second-driest September on record Adjectives 6.6 per 100 words

Lowest in the last week

• 5 Oct, 12:31 · New South Wales Man shot dead after crashing car and allegedly pointing gun at NSW police Adjectives 0.0 per 100 words
• 5 Oct, 07:39 · Darwin, NT Mother of woman who died in Kakadu takes NT coroner to Supreme Court Adjectives 0.0 per 100 words
• 4 Oct, 10:00 Police say ball bearings used to smash windows at government buildings Adjectives 0.0 per 100 words

Every reading describes how the article is written, not whether it is correct. The full method, including how the Niral Score is built, is on the Method page. Anything here can be checked against the API, which returns the same numbers with the words that produced them.

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