Topic summary
77%5 analyzed articles/videos2,778 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Legal Action results contain 45 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Framing Effect, and Confirmation Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 17.4% saturation with 1,614 hits. Analysis detected 13,496 faulty-reasoning hits from 9,300 analyzed words across 5 articles, generating a BS Score of 3.2% and a BS Rank of 55% (7,160 of 15,747 topics). This Legal Action is worse (more manipulative) than 54.50% of the peer group.
Legal Action

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

55% percentile
025507510054.5% percentile
3.2% BS Score5 analyzed articles9.3K 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 13.1%13.1%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Topic 0.8%0.8%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Topic 10.3%10.3%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 4.1%4.1%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 1.9%1.9%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 6.7%6.7%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Topic 5.3%5.3%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 2.6%2.6%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 10.7%10.7%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Topic 1.5%1.5%

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 13.1%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 16.3%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 17.4%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 6.7%, sitewide 11.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 10.7%, sitewide 7.5%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 10.3%, sitewide 5.3%Availability Heuristic: Topic 4.1%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 5.3%, sitewide 8.1%In-Group Bias: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 6.9%Halo Effect: Topic 1.9%, sitewide 6.7%Anecdotal: Topic 6.4%, sitewide 5.2%Optimism Bias: Topic 2.6%, sitewide 6.0%Begging the Question: Topic 5.3%, sitewide 1.7%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 2.2%, sitewide 4.0%Pessimism Bias: Topic 4.0%, sitewide 1.9%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 3.7%Loss Aversion: Topic 3.5%, sitewide 2.5%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 1.9%, sitewide 3.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 3.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias: Topic 3.0%, sitewide 2.0%Hindsight Bias: Topic 3.0%, sitewide 1.4%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Topic 2.2%, sitewide 2.7%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate