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NY Times Article Rating

Where's the March Madness? Making sense of the NCAA Tournament's Cinderella shortage

  • Bias Rating

    -38% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -56% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    58% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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-9% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : For the first time since 2017, no team seeded lower than No. 12 made it to the Saturday of the first weekend.
59% : The 2023 tournament produced the same number, but that first weekend featured No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson toppling No. 1 Purdue and No. 15 Princeton reaching the Sweet 16.
56% : Only five double-digit seeds advanced over the past two days: two No. 10s, one No. 11 and two No. 12s.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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