Topic summary
0% 1 analyzed article/video 622 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Budget Overruns results contain 20 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect , Appeal to Emotion , and Negativity Bias , with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 18.3% saturation with 342 hits . Analysis detected 2,046 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,866 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 5.5% and a BS Rank of 80% (3,431 of 16,562 topics). This Budget Overruns is worse (more manipulative) than 79.30% of the peer group. Budget Overruns
Topic details
Total words: 1,866
Article count: 1
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Ranking context Position among analyzed topics
79% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 79.3% percentile 5.5% BS Score1 analyzed articles1.9K analyzed words
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0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Optimism Bias Sitewide 6.0% Topic 18.3% 18.3% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Topic 17.9% 17.9% Availability Heuristic Sitewide 9.1% Topic 2.6% 2.6% In-Group Bias Sitewide 6.9% Topic 0.4% 0.4% Red Herring Sitewide 0.7% Topic 7.1% 7.1% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Topic 13.0% 13.0% Confirmation Bias Sitewide 7.5% Topic 1.5% 1.5% Hasty Generalization Sitewide 8.1% Topic 4.8% 4.8% Anchoring Bias Sitewide 4.0% Topic 1.0% 1.0% Politically Left Leaning … Sitewide 2.0% Topic 4.8% 4.8% 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 17.9%, sitewide 26.9% Negativity Bias: Topic 13.0%, sitewide 19.2% Optimism Bias: Topic 18.3%, sitewide 6.0% Appeal to Emotion: Topic 16.7%, sitewide 15.9% Availability Heuristic: Topic 2.6%, sitewide 9.1% Hasty Generalization: Topic 4.8%, sitewide 8.1% Confirmation Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 7.5% Red Herring: Topic 7.1%, sitewide 0.7% In-Group Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 6.9% Biased Writer Voice: Topic 5.5%, sitewide 5.3% Politically Left Leaning Bias: Topic 4.8%, sitewide 2.0% Self-Serving Bias: Topic 4.7%, sitewide 3.7% Overconfidence Bias: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 4.6% Anchoring Bias: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 4.0% Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 3.1% Straw Man: Topic 3.0%, sitewide 0.9% Ad Hominem: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 2.2% Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 1.9% Politically Right Leaning Bias: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 1.4% Actor-Observer Bias: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 0.6% Framing Effect Sitewide rate Topic rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst