Topic summary
⁠76%3 analyzed articles/videos1,988 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Attorney General Confirmation results contain 44 faulty reasoning types, including Politically Right Leaning Bias, Negativity Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 22.3% saturation with 2,355 hits. Analysis detected 16,147 faulty-reasoning hits from 10,574 analyzed words across 3 articles, generating a BS Score of 3.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠60% (6,744 of 16,562 topics). This Attorney General Confirmation is worse (more manipulative) than 59.30% of the peer group.
Attorney General Confirmation
Topic details

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

59% percentile
025507510059.3% percentile
3.5% BS Score3 analyzed articles10.6K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Topic 22.3%22.3%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Topic 10.4%10.4%Politically Right Leaning…Sitewide 1.4%Topic 16.3%16.3%Ad HominemSitewide 2.2%Topic 10.8%10.8%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 1.6%1.6%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 5.7%5.7%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 1.4%1.4%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 15.1%15.1%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Topic 0.5%0.5%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 4.2%4.2%

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 10.4%, sitewide 26.9%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 22.3%, sitewide 5.3%Negativity Bias: Topic 15.1%, sitewide 19.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias: Topic 16.3%, sitewide 1.4%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 13.7%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 5.7%, sitewide 11.1%Ad Hominem: Topic 10.8%, sitewide 2.2%Availability Heuristic: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 5.3%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 4.2%, sitewide 7.5%In-Group Bias: Topic 4.1%, sitewide 6.9%Halo Effect: Topic 3.7%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 6.0%Anecdotal: Topic 2.5%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 2.0%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 4.0%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 3.7%, sitewide 3.7%Unattributed Quote: Topic 3.4%, sitewide 1.1%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 2.1%, sitewide 3.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 3.1%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 1.8%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 2.7%False Dilemma: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 1.5%Begging the Question: Topic 2.2%, sitewide 1.7%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

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