Topic summary
⁠61%1 analyzed article/video554 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Highway Projects results contain 15 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Biased Writer Voice, and Indoctrination, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 17.3% saturation with 383 hits. Analysis detected 1,129 faulty-reasoning hits from 2,216 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 3.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠69% (7,152 of 22,797 topics). This Highway Projects is worse (more manipulative) than 68.60% of the peer group.
Highway Projects
Topic details
Total words: 2,216
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

69% percentile
025507510068.6% percentile
3.4% BS Score1 analyzed articles2.2K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–25%
0.0%5%10%15%20%25%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 17.3%17.3%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 2.8%2.8%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 1.3%1.3%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 9.0%9.0%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Topic 1.3%1.3%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 3.0%3.0%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Topic 0.4%0.4%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Topic 3.3%3.3%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Topic 1.3%1.3%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Topic 1.0%1.0%

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%Optimism Bias: Topic 17.3%, sitewide 6.0%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 9.0%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 2.8%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 9.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 3.0%, sitewide 7.5%In-Group Bias: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 6.9%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 3.7%, sitewide 5.3%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 4.0%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 3.7%Indoctrination: Topic 3.3%, sitewide 0.0%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 2.4%, sitewide 3.3%Recency Bias: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 2.7%Composition/Division: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 0.2%Hindsight Bias: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 1.4%Optimism BiasSitewide rateTopic rate

Analyzed articles and videos