Observatory Trends

Risk and extreme events

How public coverage of high-impact events uses danger, uncertainty, salience and numerical emphasis.

Trend status: insufficient comparable history. 0 of 3 required snapshots are available in the selected provider + sampling-mode series. No direction is reported yet.

Comparable time series

Rates per observed headline

Raw counts are not compared across weeks because snapshot sizes can differ. This table uses only no provider yet with sampling mode not available.

DateHeadlinesGainLossUncertaintyCertaintySalienceSource diversity
No comparable snapshots collected yet.

Method

Trend direction uses the whole comparable series.

Once 3 comparable snapshots exist, direction is based on the ordinary least squares slope across chronological snapshot rates, not just the first and last week.

Measurement methodology