Topic summary
94%1 analyzed article/video566 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Defense Procurement results contain 23 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Self-Serving Bias, and Appeal to Authority, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 21.7% saturation with 368 hits. Analysis detected 2,432 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,698 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 6.2% and a BS Rank of 83% (2,822 of 16,562 topics). This Defense Procurement is worse (more manipulative) than 83.00% of the peer group.
Defense Procurement
Topic details
Total words: 1,698
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

83% percentile
025507510083.0% percentile
6.2% BS Score1 analyzed articles1.7K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Attempt to Sell a Product…Sitewide 0.5%Topic 20.3%20.3%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 1.2%1.2%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 21.7%21.7%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Topic 19.0%19.0%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Topic 14.7%14.7%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 8.5%8.5%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 1.9%1.9%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 3.7%3.7%Sunk Cost EffectSitewide 0.3%Topic 5.2%5.2%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 14.9%14.9%

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 14.7%, sitewide 26.9%Optimism Bias: Topic 21.7%, sitewide 6.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service: Topic 20.3%, sitewide 0.5%Negativity Bias: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 19.2%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 19.0%, sitewide 3.7%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 8.5%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 14.9%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 3.7%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 1.9%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 4.1%, sitewide 7.5%Halo Effect: Topic 6.4%, sitewide 6.7%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 3.3%, sitewide 5.3%Sunk Cost Effect: Topic 5.2%, sitewide 0.3%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 4.0%Recency Bias: Topic 3.7%, sitewide 2.7%Unattributed Quote: Topic 3.4%, sitewide 1.1%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 1.0%, sitewide 3.3%Status Quo Bias: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 2.2%Burden of Proof: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 0.4%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 1.8%, sitewide 1.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 1.8%, sitewide 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 0.0%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

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