Topic summary
94% 1 analyzed article/video 566 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 0 25 50 75 100 83.0% percentile 6.2% BS Score1 analyzed articles1.7K analyzed words
Reasoning profile Selected profile versus the sitewide rate
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Topic SitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Attempt to Sell a Product… Sitewide 0.5% Topic 20.3% 20.3% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Topic 1.2% 1.2% Optimism Bias Sitewide 6.0% Topic 21.7% 21.7% Self-Serving Bias Sitewide 3.7% Topic 19.0% 19.0% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Topic 14.7% 14.7% Appeal to Emotion Sitewide 15.9% Topic 8.5% 8.5% Hasty Generalization Sitewide 8.1% Topic 1.9% 1.9% Availability Heuristic Sitewide 9.1% Topic 3.7% 3.7% Sunk Cost Effect Sitewide 0.3% Topic 5.2% 5.2% Appeal to Authority Sitewide 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 Effect Sitewide rate Topic rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst