Topic summary
97%1 analyzed article/video1,218 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Government & Politics results contain 34 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Slippery Slope, and Negativity Bias, with Politically Left Leaning Bias as the most egregious example at 17.6% saturation with 642 hits. Analysis detected 6,175 faulty-reasoning hits from 3,654 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 5% and a BS Rank of 75% (3,888 of 15,350 topics). This Government & Politics is worse (more manipulative) than 74.70% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

75% percentile
025507510074.7% percentile
5.0% BS Score1 analyzed articles3.7K 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 7.1%7.1%Politically Left Leaning …Sitewide 2.0%Topic 17.6%17.6%Slippery SlopeSitewide 1.7%Topic 15.2%15.2%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Topic 8.0%8.0%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Topic 12.3%12.3%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 12.6%12.6%False DilemmaSitewide 1.5%Topic 7.5%7.5%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 3.8%3.8%BandwagonSitewide 2.2%Topic 6.8%6.8%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 1.5%1.5%

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 7.1%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 12.6%, sitewide 19.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias: Topic 17.6%, sitewide 2.0%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 16.0%, sitewide 15.9%Slippery Slope: Topic 15.2%, sitewide 1.7%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 12.3%, sitewide 5.3%Appeal to Authority: Topic 10.5%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 3.8%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 5.2%, sitewide 8.1%Indoctrination: Topic 8.0%, sitewide 0.0%Confirmation Bias: Topic 3.4%, sitewide 7.5%False Dilemma: Topic 7.5%, sitewide 1.5%In-Group Bias: Topic 4.9%, sitewide 6.9%Bandwagon: Topic 6.8%, sitewide 2.2%Optimism Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 6.0%Begging the Question: Topic 5.7%, sitewide 1.7%Anecdotal: Topic 2.7%, sitewide 5.2%Pessimism Bias: Topic 4.7%, sitewide 1.9%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 1.9%, sitewide 4.6%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 3.6%, sitewide 3.7%Straw Man: Topic 3.1%, sitewide 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 2.7%Loss Aversion: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 2.5%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate