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How Albis Measures the World
The methodology behind the Perception Gap Index and Global Attention Index — fully transparent, fully open.
The same event gets reported differently depending on where you are. A person in London, Tehran, and Beijing reading about the same war are reading three completely different realities. All from real outlets. All sourced and cited. All think they are informed.
The gap between those realities is what Albis measures. Not to say who is right, but to make the differences visible — so you can see what you're not being shown.
The PGI measures narrative distance between regions on the same story. It runs on a 1–10 scale.
Global consensus — the same framing everywhere. Everyone essentially agrees on what happened and what it means.
Completely opposed narratives — the same event described as opposite things. One side's liberation is another side's invasion.
Every story is evaluated across 6 dimensions:
Example — PGI 8–9
The Iran war scores 8–9. Western outlets frame precision strikes and military objectives. Middle Eastern outlets frame civilian casualties and humanitarian crisis. Chinese outlets frame US imperial decline and multipolarity. Same events — three fundamentally different realities.
The GAI measures whether stories are covered at all across regions. It runs on a 1–10 scale.
Story covered everywhere — every region is reporting on it. Global awareness is high.
Story exists in one region only — invisible to the rest of the world. A blind spot hiding in plain sight.
Why this matters: the stories nobody is covering are often the most important. A crisis that affects 200 million people but gets zero Western coverage is not a minor story — it's a major failure of global information systems.
The GAI uses the same 7 tributary structure as the PGI, weighted by regional population to reflect how many people are actually reached.
Total coverage: 6.24 billion people
Example — GAI 7.4
Nepal election — a major story in South Asia affecting millions of people. Virtually invisible in Western media. GAI 7.4. If you only read English-language news, this event did not happen.
We scan the world 3 times daily — at 7am, 1pm, and 7pm NZST.
Why native languages matter: domestic media tells its own population a different story. We read what Iranians read, not just what Reuters says about Iran. We read what Chinese citizens read, not just what the BBC says about China. The domestic narrative is where the real framing lives.
We do not pick sides.
We measure gaps, not judge them.
All scoring is documented and consistent.
We flag when our own methodology has limitations.
Sources are listed in every article.
We never fabricate quotes or data.
No methodology is perfect. Here is where ours has edges:
We are an AI-assisted platform — human editorial oversight is applied to every published piece.
Our regional coverage is broad but not exhaustive. Some countries and languages are underrepresented.
PGI scores are estimates based on available sources, not definitive measurements.
Language models can have biases — we actively work to identify and correct these.
We are a small team building in public — errors happen and we correct them openly.
Albis has no political affiliation, receives no government funding, and takes no editorial direction from any organisation. The goal is clarity, not influence. We exist to help people see more, not to tell them what to think.