Topic summary
⁠20%1 analyzed article/video1,216 analyzed words
BS Summary: These City Council Decisions results contain 27 faulty reasoning types, including Pessimism Bias, Status Quo Bias, and Loss Aversion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 11.8% saturation with 430 hits. Analysis detected 1,560 faulty-reasoning hits from 3,648 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 1.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠11% (14,885 of 16,562 topics). This City Council Decisions is better (less manipulative) than 89.90% of the peer group.
City Council Decisions
Topic details
Total words: 3,648
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

10% percentile
025507510010.1% percentile
1.6% BS Score1 analyzed articles3.6K 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 0.8%0.8%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 1.4%1.4%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 1.9%1.9%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 1.1%1.1%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 0.6%0.6%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 11.8%11.8%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 0.6%0.6%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Topic 0.4%0.4%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Topic 0.6%0.6%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Topic 1.6%1.6%

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 0.8%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 11.8%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 1.9%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 7.5%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 5.3%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 4.0%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 3.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 0.9%, sitewide 3.3%Pessimism Bias: Topic 3.0%, sitewide 1.9%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 2.7%Loss Aversion: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 2.5%Status Quo Bias: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 2.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 1.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 1.8%, sitewide 0.8%Begging the Question: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 1.7%Quote-first Misdirection: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 0.0%False Dilemma: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 1.5%Unattributed Quote: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 1.1%Hindsight Bias: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 1.4%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

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