Topic summary
⁠81%2 analyzed articles/videos1,347 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Police Chief's Absence results contain 27 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Confirmation Bias, and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 22.5% saturation with 1,214 hits. Analysis detected 4,427 faulty-reasoning hits from 5,388 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 3% and a BS Rank of ⁠63% (8,390 of 22,420 topics). This Police Chief's Absence is worse (more manipulative) than 62.60% of the peer group.
Police Chief's Absence
Topic details
Total words: 5,388
Article count: 2
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

63% percentile
025507510062.6% percentile
3.0% BS Score2 analyzed articles5.4K 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 10.8%10.8%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 0.8%0.8%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 0.3%0.3%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 3.5%3.5%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Topic 0.3%0.3%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 4.4%4.4%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Topic 0.1%0.1%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 22.5%22.5%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Topic 2.4%2.4%Status Quo BiasSitewide 2.2%Topic 0.5%0.5%

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 10.8%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 22.5%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 15.9%Availability Heuristic: Topic 3.5%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 4.4%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 7.3%, sitewide 7.5%Optimism Bias: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 5.9%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 4.6%Recency Bias: Topic 4.1%, sitewide 2.7%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 0.1%, sitewide 3.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 2.1%, sitewide 3.3%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 2.3%, sitewide 2.7%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 2.6%, sitewide 1.9%Unattributed Quote: Topic 2.6%, sitewide 1.1%Status Quo Bias: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 2.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias: Topic 1.9%, sitewide 2.0%Blind-Spot Bias: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 0.2%Burden of Proof: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 0.4%Quote-first Misdirection: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 0.0%Red Herring: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 0.7%Horn Effect: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 1.0%Straw Man: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 0.9%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

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