Topic summary
⁠82%1 analyzed article/video344 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Disease Transmission results contain 19 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Hasty Generalization, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 23.7% saturation with 245 hits. Analysis detected 1,147 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,032 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 5.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠82% (3,096 of 16,562 topics). This Disease Transmission is worse (more manipulative) than 81.30% of the peer group.
Disease Transmission
Topic details
Total words: 1,032
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

81% percentile
025507510081.3% percentile
5.8% BS Score1 analyzed articles1K 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 8.5%8.5%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 2.9%2.9%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 17.5%17.5%Recency BiasSitewide 2.7%Topic 7.7%7.7%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 2.9%2.9%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 23.7%23.7%Circular ReasoningSitewide 0.1%Topic 2.9%2.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Topic 3.6%3.6%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 3.5%3.5%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 10.6%10.6%

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 8.5%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 23.7%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Authority: Topic 17.5%, sitewide 11.1%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 2.9%, sitewide 15.9%Hasty Generalization: Topic 10.6%, sitewide 8.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 7.8%, sitewide 9.1%Recency Bias: Topic 7.7%, sitewide 2.7%Confirmation Bias: Topic 2.9%, sitewide 7.5%Optimism Bias: Topic 3.5%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 2.9%, sitewide 5.3%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 4.9%, sitewide 3.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 3.6%, sitewide 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 3.2%, sitewide 2.7%Actor-Observer Bias: Topic 2.9%, sitewide 0.6%Circular Reasoning: Topic 2.9%, sitewide 0.1%Pessimism Bias: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 1.9%Red Herring: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 0.7%Unattributed Quote: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 1.1%Appeal to Nature: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 0.2%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

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