Topic summary
⁠0%1 analyzed article/video464 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Congress Oversight results contain 22 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Framing Effect, and Pessimism Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 43.2% saturation with 601 hits. Analysis detected 3,682 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,392 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 12% and a BS Rank of ⁠95% (881 of 16,562 topics). This Congress Oversight is worse (more manipulative) than 94.70% of the peer group.
Congress Oversight
Topic ranking list
PercentileTopicBS Score
⁠0%Uber1%
⁠0%Pittsburgh Pirates1%
⁠0%Opera1%
⁠0%Holocaust1%
⁠0%Privacy Policy1%
⁠95%Congress Oversight (selected)13%
⁠100%Radio Roundup / Week In Review60%
⁠100%E-Bikes / Rad Power Bikes60%
⁠100%E Bikes Rad Power Bikes60%
⁠100%The Last Word With Lawrence O'donnell69%
⁠100%The Last Word With Lawrence Odonnell69%
Topic details
Total words: 1,392
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

95% percentile
025507510094.7% percentile
12.0% BS Score1 analyzed articles1.4K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 38.9%38.9%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 43.2%43.2%Pessimism BiasSitewide 1.9%Topic 21.3%21.3%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Topic 37.4%37.4%Burden of ProofSitewide 0.4%Topic 10.1%10.1%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 17.8%17.8%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Topic 9.0%9.0%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Topic 10.3%10.3%Straw ManSitewide 0.9%Topic 6.2%6.2%Ad HominemSitewide 2.2%Topic 4.7%4.7%

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%Negativity Bias: Topic 43.2%, sitewide 19.2%Confirmation Bias: Topic 38.9%, sitewide 7.5%Framing Effect: Topic 37.4%, sitewide 26.9%Pessimism Bias: Topic 21.3%, sitewide 1.9%Hasty Generalization: Topic 17.8%, sitewide 8.1%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 15.2%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 11.3%, sitewide 11.1%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 10.3%, sitewide 4.6%Availability Heuristic: Topic 10.2%, sitewide 9.1%Burden of Proof: Topic 10.1%, sitewide 0.4%Begging the Question: Topic 9.0%, sitewide 1.7%Anecdotal: Topic 7.8%, sitewide 5.2%Straw Man: Topic 6.2%, sitewide 0.9%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 5.6%, sitewide 3.3%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 5.2%, sitewide 2.7%Ad Hominem: Topic 4.7%, sitewide 2.2%Recency Bias: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 2.7%Slippery Slope: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 1.7%Genetic Fallacy: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 1.4%No True Scotsman: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 0.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 1.2%, sitewide 0.8%Blind-Spot Bias: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 0.2%Negativity BiasSitewide rateTopic rate

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