Topic summary
0%6 analyzed articles/videos363 analyzed words
BS Summary: These District Of Columbia (united States) results contain 20 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Politically Left Leaning Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 35.1% saturation with 510 hits. Analysis detected 2,028 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,452 analyzed words across 6 articles, generating a BS Score of 7% and a BS Rank of 86% (2,372 of 16,562 topics). This District Of Columbia (united States) is worse (more manipulative) than 85.70% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

86% percentile
025507510085.7% percentile
7.0% BS Score6 analyzed articles1.5K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Topic 24.6%24.6%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 4.4%4.4%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 30.4%30.4%Politically Left Leaning …Sitewide 2.0%Topic 11.2%11.2%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Topic 35.1%35.1%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 1.4%1.4%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 2.9%2.9%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Topic 1.0%1.0%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 5.1%5.1%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Topic 1.1%1.1%

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 35.1%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 30.4%, sitewide 19.2%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 24.6%, sitewide 5.3%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 4.4%, sitewide 15.9%Politically Left Leaning Bias: Topic 11.2%, sitewide 2.0%Availability Heuristic: Topic 5.1%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 2.9%, sitewide 7.5%Anecdotal: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 3.3%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 4.0%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 3.3%, sitewide 3.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 2.8%, sitewide 3.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 2.9%, sitewide 0.8%Horn Effect: Topic 2.5%, sitewide 1.0%Unattributed Quote: Topic 2.3%, sitewide 1.1%Pessimism Bias: Topic 1.9%, sitewide 1.9%Primacy Effect: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 0.9%Hindsight Bias: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 1.4%Quote-first Misdirection: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 0.0%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate