Keyword summary
0%1 analyzed article/video127 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Higher-Education results contain 21 faulty reasoning types, including Pessimism Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Hasty Generalization as the most egregious example at 25% saturation with 127 hits. Analysis detected 1,005 faulty-reasoning hits from 508 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 9.4% and a BS Rank of 94% (2,145 of 35,666 keywords). This Higher-Education is worse (more manipulative) than 94.00% of the peer group.
Higher-Education

Ranking context

Position among analyzed keywords

94% percentile
025507510094.0% percentile
9.4% BS Score1 analyzed articles508 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

KeywordSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Pessimism BiasSitewide 1.9%Keyword 25.0%25.0%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Keyword 25.0%25.0%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Keyword 14.4%14.4%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Keyword 19.5%19.5%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Keyword 16.7%16.7%Attempt to Sell a Product…Sitewide 0.5%Keyword 10.2%10.2%Burden of ProofSitewide 0.4%Keyword 8.9%8.9%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Keyword 7.7%7.7%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Keyword 3.0%3.0%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Keyword 3.0%3.0%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%10%10%20%20%30%30%40%40%50%50%Framing Effect: Keyword 14.4%, sitewide 26.9%Hasty Generalization: Keyword 25.0%, sitewide 8.1%Pessimism Bias: Keyword 25.0%, sitewide 1.9%Confirmation Bias: Keyword 19.5%, sitewide 7.5%Negativity Bias: Keyword 18.3%, sitewide 19.2%Biased Writer Voice: Keyword 16.7%, sitewide 5.3%Appeal to Emotion: Keyword 7.7%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Keyword 3.0%, sitewide 11.1%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service: Keyword 10.2%, sitewide 0.5%Anchoring Bias: Keyword 9.8%, sitewide 4.0%Availability Heuristic: Keyword 3.0%, sitewide 9.1%Burden of Proof: Keyword 8.9%, sitewide 0.4%False Dilemma: Keyword 6.7%, sitewide 1.5%Anecdotal: Keyword 5.9%, sitewide 5.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Keyword 4.9%, sitewide 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic: Keyword 4.9%, sitewide 1.9%Overconfidence Bias: Keyword 1.4%, sitewide 4.6%Unattributed Quote: Keyword 4.1%, sitewide 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error: Keyword 3.7%, sitewide 2.7%Slippery Slope: Keyword 3.1%, sitewide 1.7%Quote-first Misdirection: Keyword 1.6%, sitewide 0.0%Framing EffectSitewide rateKeyword rate

Analyzed articles and videos

Student Loan Update: New Bill Would Cut Payments by Thousands of Dollars47%
Newsweek33%By Suzanne Blake73%7/23/2026, 9:39:21 PM
Facing Political Attack and Falling Enrollment, Colleges Take the Fight to … Each Other20%
Washington Monthly52%By Jon Marcus70%7/23/2026, 9:00:00 AM
"Academics Spent Years Lending Their Institutional Credibility to Various Political Projects"97%
Reason.com40%By Eugene Volokh6%7/19/2026, 8:42:57 PM
Are H-1B visa holders in universities radicalizing the students?82%
American Thinker93%By Monica Showalter93%7/19/2026, 4:00:00 AM
Trump's Harmful and Unjust New Restrictions on Foreign Students74%
Reason.com40%By Ilya Somin92%7/18/2026, 11:09:45 PM
Students win state higher education grants38%
Chicago Tribune11%By Post-Tribune56%7/18/2026, 11:17:37 AM
Elite colleges brought back SAT requirements. The UC answer? Hurry up and wait52%
The San Francisco Standard35%By Jessica Blough61%7/16/2026, 11:24:58 PM
Shuttered Vermont colleges: reincarnated and repurposed.77%
VTDigger20%By Greta Solsaa0%7/16/2026, 8:29:42 PM
Should UC bring back the SAT for admissions?12%
Berkeleyside32%By Felicia Mello24%7/15/2026, 8:54:20 PM
The Taliban’s war on education: ‘Nobody talks about what is happening to the boys’46%
the Guardian80%By Fatima Faizi Guardian staff reporter40%7/13/2026, 9:00:42 AM