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Methodologies
How LogicLens methods work.
LogicLens works a little differently depending on where you use it. This page explains each method on its own — how your My Info Diet food guides are built, and how the Chrome extension scores an article — so you can see exactly what each one is doing.
What a food guide is
A LogicLens food guide is a baseline for your information diet. It asks: if your attention went mostly to significant news and information, what mix of topics would that produce?
The guide is not a claim that every person should read the same things. It is a comparison point, built from non-partisan signals such as scale, severity, duration, probability, reliability, and human impact.
Significance versus importance
LogicLens separates significance from personal importance or relevance. A story about your family may be extremely important to you, but it is not automatically significant for humanity. Significance looks for broader, more measurable effects: how many people are affected, how severe the effect is, how long it lasts, and how likely it is to materialize.
How value tuning changes the guide
Value tuning does not fact-check an article or decide whether a source is good. It changes how strongly a guide considers certain impacts when converting analyzed items into topic weights.
Examples of value lenses
Democracy, human rights, local community impact, environmental impact, national interests, long-term risk, religious and traditional values, and institutional consensus.
What the lenses do
A stronger lens gives more weight to coverage with that kind of impact. Turning a lens off leaves the guide closer to its base model.
Important caveat
Food guides are comparison tools, not moral grades. They can help reveal overfed or underfed parts of an info diet, but the final judgment still belongs to the reader.
What the score is
LogicLens currently uses a 0 to 100 score for supported article and blog-style content. A higher score generally means detected issues affect less of the text, appear less densely, or are lower severity. A lower score means the content may deserve closer review.
The score is not a truth rating. It does not mean an article is correct or incorrect. It is a reading signal about neutrality, framing, and persuasive pressure. The individual insights are usually more precise than the single number.
When scoring applies
The score is currently shown only when enough readable text is available and the content type supports scoring. For unsupported content, or where there is not enough scoreable material, LogicLens may show N/A instead of forcing a misleading number.
What counts against the score
The current scoring system focuses on scoreable issues such as loaded language, weak reasoning, misleading framing, missing context, and other persuasive tactics. Neutral or positive observations are not treated the same way as issues that suggest rhetorical pressure.
The two penalties
Coverage penalty
LogicLens estimates how much of the text is affected by scoreable insights. A larger affected portion can lower the score more, especially when the issues appear more severe.
Density penalty
LogicLens also looks at how frequently scoreable issues appear relative to the length of the content. Repeated issues can matter more than a single isolated example.
In plain English: a single small issue should not sink a long article, but repeated or high-severity problems should matter. The exact scoring approach may evolve over time.
Score bands
Author, sources, and unattributed text
When the text allows it, LogicLens can group insights by author narration, quoted sources, and unattributed material. The combined score summarizes the whole piece, while the breakdown can help show where the rhetorical pressure appears to come from.
Important caveat
More emotional topics can produce lower scores even when a writer is trying to be fair. The score can be wrong or overly simple, so it is best treated as a starting point for reading the insights, not as an absolute moral grade.
Current system
This tab describes the current LogicLens browser extension scoring system. It may change as the product improves, as categories are refined, and as we learn where the score helps readers versus where individual insights are more useful.
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