Topic summary
0% 1 analyzed article/video 302 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Governor Race results contain 24 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion , Loss Aversion , and Framing Effect , with False Dilemma as the most egregious example at 20.3% saturation with 245 hits . Analysis detected 1,655 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,208 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 5.7% and a BS Rank of 80% (3,127 of 15,145 topics). This Governor Race is worse (more manipulative) than 79.40% of the peer group. Governor Race
Topic details
Total words: 1,208
Article count: 1
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Ranking context Position among analyzed topics
79% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 79.4% percentile 5.7% BS Score1 analyzed articles1.2K analyzed words
Reasoning profile Selected profile versus the sitewide rate
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Topic SitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% False Dilemma Sitewide 1.5% Topic 20.3% 20.3% Slippery Slope Sitewide 1.7% Topic 14.7% 14.7% Loss Aversion Sitewide 2.5% Topic 15.2% 15.2% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Topic 6.7% 6.7% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Topic 15.0% 15.0% Availability Heuristic Sitewide 9.1% Topic 1.2% 1.2% Confirmation Bias Sitewide 7.5% Topic 1.0% 1.0% Halo Effect Sitewide 6.7% Topic 1.2% 1.2% Optimism Bias Sitewide 6.0% Topic 0.6% 0.6% Pessimism Bias Sitewide 1.9% Topic 6.4% 6.4% 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 15.0%, sitewide 26.9% False Dilemma: Topic 20.3%, sitewide 1.5% Negativity Bias: Topic 6.7%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Emotion: Topic 16.6%, sitewide 15.9% Loss Aversion: Topic 15.2%, sitewide 2.5% Slippery Slope: Topic 14.7%, sitewide 1.7% Availability Heuristic: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 9.1% Confirmation Bias: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 7.5% In-Group Bias: Topic 4.6%, sitewide 6.9% Recency Bias: Topic 6.8%, sitewide 2.7% Halo Effect: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 6.7% Biased Writer Voice: Topic 6.4%, sitewide 5.3% Pessimism Bias: Topic 6.4%, sitewide 1.9% Optimism Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 6.0% Overconfidence Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 4.6% Unattributed Quote: Topic 4.5%, sitewide 1.1% Anchoring Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 4.0% Indoctrination: Topic 4.0%, sitewide 0.0% Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 1.9%, sitewide 3.3% Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 3.1%, sitewide 1.9% Quote-first Misdirection: Topic 1.8%, sitewide 0.0% Hindsight Bias: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 1.4% Primacy Effect: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 0.9% Special Pleading: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 0.3% Framing Effect Sitewide rate Topic rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst