Topic summary
13%3 analyzed articles/videos1,772 analyzed words
BS Summary: These House Oversight Committee results contain 28 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Appeal to Authority, with Self-Serving Bias as the most egregious example at 15.8% saturation with 764 hits. Analysis detected 2,737 faulty-reasoning hits from 4,839 analyzed words across 3 articles, generating a BS Score of 2% and a BS Rank of 24% (12,534 of 16,486 topics). This House Oversight Committee is better (less manipulative) than 76.00% of the peer group.
House Oversight Committee
Topic details

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

24% percentile
025507510024.0% percentile
2.0% BS Score3 analyzed articles4.8K 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 2.5%2.5%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 2.0%2.0%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 6.0%6.0%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Topic 15.8%15.8%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 2.8%2.8%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 2.1%2.1%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 1.4%1.4%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 0.5%0.5%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 1.2%1.2%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Topic 0.7%0.7%

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 2.5%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 6.0%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 2.0%, sitewide 15.9%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 15.8%, sitewide 3.7%Appeal to Authority: Topic 2.8%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 3.1%, sitewide 7.5%Halo Effect: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 1.8%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 4.0%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 2.6%, sitewide 3.3%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 2.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 2.6%, sitewide 0.8%Ad Hominem: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 2.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 2.0%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 1.9%Pessimism Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 1.9%False Dilemma: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 1.5%Hindsight Bias: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 1.4%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate