Topic summary
⁠76%1 analyzed article/video877 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Government Payments results contain 24 faulty reasoning types, including Self-Serving Bias, Framing Effect, and Confirmation Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 14.8% saturation with 390 hits. Analysis detected 2,429 faulty-reasoning hits from 2,631 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 3.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠65% (5,597 of 15,778 topics). This Government Payments is worse (more manipulative) than 64.50% of the peer group.
Government Payments
Topic details
Total words: 2,631
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

65% percentile
025507510064.5% percentile
3.8% BS Score1 analyzed articles2.6K 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 12.1%12.1%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 3.6%3.6%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Topic 12.9%12.9%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 3.2%3.2%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 3.9%3.9%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Topic 0.5%0.5%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 14.8%14.8%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 1.8%1.8%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 5.4%5.4%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Topic 2.0%2.0%

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 12.1%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 14.8%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 3.6%, sitewide 15.9%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 12.9%, sitewide 3.7%Appeal to Authority: Topic 3.2%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 3.9%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 5.4%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 7.8%, sitewide 7.5%Optimism Bias: Topic 1.8%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 5.3%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 5.0%, sitewide 3.3%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 2.0%, sitewide 4.6%False Dilemma: Topic 3.3%, sitewide 1.5%Burden of Proof: Topic 2.9%, sitewide 0.4%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 2.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias: Topic 2.2%, sitewide 2.0%Status Quo Bias: Topic 1.9%, sitewide 2.2%Ad Hominem: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 2.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 1.9%Pessimism Bias: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 1.9%Red Herring: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 0.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 1.1%, sitewide 0.8%No True Scotsman: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 0.1%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

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