Topic summary
⁠1%1 analyzed article/video201 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Flint City Council results contain 3 faulty reasoning types, including Status Quo Bias and Appeal to Authority, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 3.2% saturation with 26 hits. Analysis detected 73 faulty-reasoning hits from 804 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 3% and a BS Rank of ⁠62% (8,324 of 21,513 topics). This Flint City Council is worse (more manipulative) than 61.30% of the peer group.
Flint City Council
Topic details
Total words: 804
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

61% percentile
025507510061.3% percentile
3.0% BS Score1 analyzed articles804 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–25%
0.0%5%10%15%20%25%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 2.9%2.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Topic 3.2%3.2%Status Quo BiasSitewide 2.2%Topic 3.0%3.0%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%5%5%10%10%15%15%20%20%25%25%Appeal to Authority: Topic 2.9%, sitewide 11.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 3.2%, sitewide 0.8%Status Quo Bias: Topic 3.0%, sitewide 2.2%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateTopic rate

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