Topic summary
⁠3%3 analyzed articles/videos1,709 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Boat Accident results contain 28 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Appeal to Authority, and Anecdotal, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 8.9% saturation with 589 hits. Analysis detected 2,581 faulty-reasoning hits from 6,596 analyzed words across 3 articles, generating a BS Score of 1.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠6% (14,764 of 15,561 topics). This Boat Accident is better (less manipulative) than 94.90% of the peer group.
Boat Accident

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

5% percentile
02550751005.1% percentile
1.4% BS Score3 analyzed articles6.6K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Topic 1.6%1.6%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 4.5%4.5%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 8.9%8.9%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 3.4%3.4%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 1.4%1.4%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 0.8%0.8%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 0.3%0.3%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 0.6%0.6%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 1.4%1.4%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Topic 0.6%0.6%

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 1.6%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 8.9%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 4.5%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 3.4%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 7.5%Halo Effect: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 2.6%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Topic 2.9%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 4.0%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 0.5%, sitewide 3.3%Unattributed Quote: Topic 2.6%, sitewide 1.1%Loss Aversion: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 2.5%Bandwagon: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 2.2%Status Quo Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 2.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 1.9%False Dilemma: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 1.5%Hindsight Bias: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 0.9%, sitewide 0.8%Primacy Effect: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 0.0%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

Analyzed articles and videos