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=What is the “Kleinfeld Score”?=

The Kleinfeld Score is a numerical score that measures a political figure’s honesty.  Wikiprove editors take a political figure’s total number of specific factual claims that are truthful (i.e., not <span style="color:red">false</span>, <span style="color:purple">misleading</span>, <span style="color:green">BS</span>, or <u>inconsistent</u>) and divide by his or her total number of specific factual claims.  

The result indicates the percentage of time that the political figure speaks honestly.

For example, if a politician gives a speech containing 10 specific factual claims, 4 of which turn out to be untrue, that speech gets a 6/10.  If the politician later gives a speech with 2 out of 12 untruths, that speech gets a 10/12.  That politician's Kleinfeld Score is the sum of all his or her statements that have been Wikiproved: 16/22 or 73%.

The Kleinfeld Score is named for Wikiprove’s founder and director, Joshua Kleinfeld, an assistant professor of law at Northwestern University: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/Joshua%20SethKleinfeld.