Topic summary
⁠62%2 analyzed articles/videos566 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Material Science results contain 26 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, and Self-Serving Bias, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 13.2% saturation with 445 hits. Analysis detected 3,093 faulty-reasoning hits from 3,384 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 3.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠61% (6,606 of 16,562 topics). This Material Science is worse (more manipulative) than 60.10% of the peer group.
Material Science
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Topic details
Total words: 3,384
Article count: 2
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

60% percentile
025507510060.1% percentile
3.5% BS Score2 analyzed articles3.4K 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 8.9%8.9%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 1.4%1.4%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 4.6%4.6%Attempt to Sell a Product…Sitewide 0.5%Topic 11.2%11.2%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 13.2%13.2%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 2.8%2.8%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Topic 9.5%9.5%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 2.7%2.7%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 2.8%2.8%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 3.2%3.2%

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 8.9%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 4.6%, sitewide 15.9%Optimism Bias: Topic 13.2%, sitewide 6.0%Appeal to Authority: Topic 11.5%, sitewide 11.1%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service: Topic 11.2%, sitewide 0.5%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 9.5%, sitewide 3.7%Availability Heuristic: Topic 2.8%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 2.7%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 2.8%, sitewide 7.5%Halo Effect: Topic 3.2%, sitewide 6.7%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 3.5%, sitewide 5.3%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 4.0%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 0.5%, sitewide 3.3%Recency Bias: Topic 2.9%, sitewide 2.7%Sunk Cost Effect: Topic 2.6%, sitewide 0.3%Status Quo Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 2.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 1.9%Unattributed Quote: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 1.1%Begging the Question: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 1.7%Burden of Proof: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 0.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 0.9%, sitewide 0.8%Primacy Effect: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 0.9%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

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