Method / Indicator
Gender
Gendered role names, sex named where it is not germane, looks and family status reported where they are not the story, and framings that soften violence.
0 no gendered framing framing throughout 100
What raises it
- Gendered role names ("chairman", "spokeswoman")
- Sex named where the role is the story ("female engineer")
- Looks or family status where they are not the story ("mother-of-two")
- Verdicts gendered by usage ("shrill")
- Framings that soften violence ("domestic dispute"), which weigh most
What is never counted
- Who the story is about
- Quoted speech
Highest in the last week
- V'landys named NRL executive chair after leaving Racing NSW post Gender 20.5
- Young nurse killed in Tapping crash, as police confirm cyclist has died in separate alleged hit-and-run in Northam Gender 18.7
- Dog dies, second fights for life after suspected poisoning near children's park on the Gold Coast Gender 18.1
Lowest in the last week
- Why NVIDIA's most powerful GPU is sold to consumers Gender 0
- Get better audio quality from your vinyl by upgrading this part Gender 0
- Ireland players vote to go ahead with Israel matches despite ‘different views’ Gender 0
Every reading is of the writing, not of whether the article 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.
The other indicators
Niral ScoreAdjectivesRepeated wordsSentimentPolitical dictionGenerationalJingoisticReligiousSourcingMood