Hype Check One meter for the whole week
The signature of Hype Check Live is the meter: a simple zero-to-one-hundred score, real on the left, hype on the right, applied to the loudest claims across every field.
A score works because it is honest and fast. It forces a call and it travels well. Every week the meter runs across business, tech, money, science, culture, and sports, backed by a published method and a named source for every number, so it is a tool, not a gimmick.
How each edition works
Same format every week, a fresh set of claims. Each item gives you the claim in plain terms, a two or three sentence check, the source, and a hype score from zero to one hundred. Low means mostly real, high means mostly hype. Five or six claims, one per domain, in about four minutes.
Why it holds up
Every number is real and citable; nothing is invented. We check claims, not people, so politics rides in only as a checkable number chosen from across the spectrum. The score follows a published, repeatable method. And we credit the underhyped as readily as we flag the overhyped, because honest scorekeeping cuts both ways.
Common questions
How do you decide a score?
A repeatable method looks at what the claim asserts versus what the evidence supports, the size of the stretch, and the strength of the source.
Is the score subjective?
It is a judgment, made the same way every time and shown with its sources so you can push back. Publishing the method is the point.
Can I see past scores?
Every edition keeps its scores and sources. Reply any time to challenge one.
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