Topic summary
⁠84%4 analyzed articles/videos1,402 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Flash Flooding results contain 21 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Authority, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 27.5% saturation with 1,616 hits. Analysis detected 4,897 faulty-reasoning hits from 5,880 analyzed words across 4 articles, generating a BS Score of 4% and a BS Rank of ⁠66% (5,295 of 15,572 topics). This Flash Flooding is worse (more manipulative) than 66.00% of the peer group.
Flash Flooding

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

66% percentile
025507510066.0% percentile
4.0% BS Score4 analyzed articles5.9K 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 9.6%9.6%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 3.1%3.1%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 27.5%27.5%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 0.6%0.6%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 1.5%1.5%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 0.9%0.9%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Topic 0.3%0.3%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Topic 0.4%0.4%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 12.7%12.7%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Topic 1.9%1.9%

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%Negativity Bias: Topic 27.5%, sitewide 19.2%Framing Effect: Topic 9.6%, sitewide 26.9%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 3.1%, sitewide 15.9%Availability Heuristic: Topic 12.7%, sitewide 9.1%Appeal to Authority: Topic 8.8%, sitewide 11.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 7.5%Halo Effect: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Topic 1.9%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 4.0%, sitewide 4.0%Pessimism Bias: Topic 3.4%, sitewide 1.9%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 2.9%, sitewide 3.3%Recency Bias: Topic 2.2%, sitewide 2.7%Status Quo Bias: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 2.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 1.9%Hindsight Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 1.4%Red Herring: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 0.7%Primacy Effect: Topic 0.1%, sitewide 0.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 0.4%, sitewide 0.8%Negativity BiasSitewide rateTopic rate

Analyzed articles and videos