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The rumor intensity formula was developed by Gordon Allport and L. Postman and reflects the pattern for rumors to develop as a function of the importance of the information and its ambiguity.

R=ia

where R is the intensity of the rumor

i = importance

a = ambiguity

Where either a or i is zero there is no rumor.