Topic summary
0% 1 analyzed article/video 490 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Artificial Reefs results contain 24 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice , Quote-first Misdirection , and Unattributed Quote , with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 16.4% saturation with 321 hits . Analysis detected 1,626 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,960 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 3.5% and a BS Rank of 60% (6,772 of 16,562 topics). This Artificial Reefs is worse (more manipulative) than 59.10% of the peer group. Artificial Reefs
Topic details
Total words: 1,960
Article count: 1
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Ranking context Position among analyzed topics
59% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 59.1% percentile 3.5% BS Score1 analyzed articles2K analyzed words
Reasoning profile Selected profile versus the sitewide rate
Highest rates Largest gaps
Topic SitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Topic 5.0% 5.0% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Topic 2.1% 2.1% Appeal to Emotion Sitewide 15.9% Topic 2.0% 2.0% Quote-first Misdirection Sitewide 0.0% Topic 10.1% 10.1% Hasty Generalization Sitewide 8.1% Topic 1.4% 1.4% Confirmation Bias Sitewide 7.5% Topic 1.0% 1.0% In-Group Bias Sitewide 6.9% Topic 1.4% 1.4% Appeal to Authority Sitewide 11.1% Topic 16.4% 16.4% Optimism Bias Sitewide 6.0% Topic 1.0% 1.0% Biased Writer Voice Sitewide 5.3% Topic 10.3% 10.3% 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: Topic 5.0%, sitewide 26.9% Negativity Bias: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Authority: Topic 16.4%, sitewide 11.1% Appeal to Emotion: Topic 2.0%, sitewide 15.9% Biased Writer Voice: Topic 10.3%, sitewide 5.3% Quote-first Misdirection: Topic 10.1%, sitewide 0.0% Availability Heuristic: Topic 4.8%, sitewide 9.1% Hasty Generalization: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 8.1% Confirmation Bias: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 7.5% In-Group Bias: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 6.9% Halo Effect: Topic 2.5%, sitewide 6.7% Optimism Bias: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 6.0% Unattributed Quote: Topic 5.4%, sitewide 1.1% Overconfidence Bias: Topic 3.6%, sitewide 4.6% Anchoring Bias: Topic 4.6%, sitewide 4.0% Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 2.0%, sitewide 3.3% Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 2.7% Recency Bias: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 2.7% Status Quo Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 2.2% Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 1.9% Appeal to Nature: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 0.2% Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 1.2%, sitewide 0.8% Primacy Effect: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 0.9% Red Herring: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 0.7% Framing Effect Sitewide rate Topic rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst