Topic summary
9%5 analyzed articles/videos1,666 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Court results contain 39 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Appeal to Emotion, and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 9.1% saturation with 677 hits. Analysis detected 4,847 faulty-reasoning hits from 7,442 analyzed words across 5 articles, generating a BS Score of 1.7% and a BS Rank of 13% (14,477 of 16,562 topics). This Court is better (less manipulative) than 87.40% of the peer group.
Court

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

13% percentile
025507510012.6% percentile
1.7% BS Score5 analyzed articles7.4K 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 6.5%6.5%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 5.5%5.5%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 9.1%9.1%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 3.8%3.8%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Topic 0.1%0.1%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 2.9%2.9%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 0.7%0.7%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 0.4%0.4%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Topic 0.9%0.9%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 3.8%3.8%

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 6.5%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 9.1%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 5.5%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 3.8%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 2.9%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 3.8%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 3.6%, sitewide 7.5%In-Group Bias: Topic 0.1%, sitewide 6.9%Halo Effect: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 5.0%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 4.0%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 0.8%, sitewide 3.3%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Topic 0.1%, sitewide 2.7%Loss Aversion: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 2.5%Unattributed Quote: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 1.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 2.3%, sitewide 0.8%Bandwagon: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 2.2%Status Quo Bias: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 2.2%Ad Hominem: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 2.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 2.0%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate