Topic summary
32% 1 analyzed article/video 789 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Kansas Elections results contain 22 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic , Framing Effect , and Halo Effect , with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 7.6% saturation with 181 hits . Analysis detected 1,232 faulty-reasoning hits from 2,367 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 2.4% and a BS Rank of 36% (10,692 of 16,562 topics). This Kansas Elections is better (less manipulative) than 64.60% of the peer group. Kansas Elections
Topic details
Total words: 2,367
Article count: 1
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Ranking context Position among analyzed topics
35% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 35.4% percentile 2.4% BS Score1 analyzed articles2.4K analyzed words
Reasoning profile Selected profile versus the sitewide rate
Highest rates Largest gaps
Topic SitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Topic 5.1% 5.1% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Topic 2.5% 2.5% Appeal to Authority Sitewide 11.1% Topic 1.9% 1.9% Appeal to Emotion Sitewide 15.9% Topic 7.7% 7.7% Hasty Generalization Sitewide 8.1% Topic 1.3% 1.3% In-Group Bias Sitewide 6.9% Topic 1.1% 1.1% Anecdotal Sitewide 5.2% Topic 0.5% 0.5% Availability Heuristic Sitewide 9.1% Topic 5.3% 5.3% Optimism Bias Sitewide 6.0% Topic 2.5% 2.5% Confirmation Bias Sitewide 7.5% Topic 4.1% 4.1% 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 5.1%, sitewide 26.9% Negativity Bias: Topic 2.5%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Emotion: Topic 7.7%, sitewide 15.9% Appeal to Authority: Topic 1.9%, sitewide 11.1% Availability Heuristic: Topic 5.3%, sitewide 9.1% Hasty Generalization: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 8.1% Confirmation Bias: Topic 4.1%, sitewide 7.5% In-Group Bias: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 6.9% Halo Effect: Topic 5.0%, sitewide 6.7% Optimism Bias: Topic 2.5%, sitewide 6.0% Biased Writer Voice: Topic 3.0%, sitewide 5.3% Anecdotal: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 5.2% Loss Aversion: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 2.5% Pessimism Bias: Topic 2.3%, sitewide 1.9% Status Quo Bias: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 2.2% Begging the Question: Topic 2.0%, sitewide 1.7% Quote-first Misdirection: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 0.0% Unattributed Quote: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 1.1% False Dilemma: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 1.5% Primacy Effect: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 0.9% Actor-Observer Bias: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 0.6% Appeal to Nature: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 0.2% Framing Effect Sitewide rate Topic rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst