Topic summary
⁠0%3 analyzed articles/videos2,211 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Midwest Newsroom results contain 32 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Authority, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 13.9% saturation with 1,082 hits. Analysis detected 4,972 faulty-reasoning hits from 7,808 analyzed words across 3 articles, generating a BS Score of 2% and a BS Rank of ⁠23% (12,761 of 16,562 topics). This Midwest Newsroom is better (less manipulative) than 77.00% of the peer group.
Midwest Newsroom
Topic ranking list
Topic details
Total words: 7,808
Article count: 3
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

23% percentile
025507510023.0% percentile
2.0% BS Score3 analyzed articles7.8K 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 7.2%7.2%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 3.5%3.5%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 1.8%1.8%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 9.6%9.6%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 0.7%0.7%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 0.4%0.4%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 13.9%13.9%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 3.1%3.1%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 3.1%3.1%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Topic 1.1%1.1%

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 7.2%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 13.9%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 9.6%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 3.5%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 1.8%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 3.1%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 3.1%, sitewide 7.5%Halo Effect: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 3.3%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 4.0%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 3.7%Quote-first Misdirection: Topic 3.4%, sitewide 0.0%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 0.4%, sitewide 3.3%Unattributed Quote: Topic 3.3%, sitewide 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 2.7%Ad Hominem: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 2.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 1.9%Pessimism Bias: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 1.9%False Dilemma: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 1.5%Hindsight Bias: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 1.4%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

Analyzed articles and videos