Topic summary
66% 7 analyzed articles/videos 2,599 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Police Investigation results contain 37 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias , Appeal to Emotion , and Availability Heuristic , with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 27.9% saturation with 2,528 hits . Analysis detected 10,247 faulty-reasoning hits from 9,050 analyzed words across 7 articles, generating a BS Score of 3.1% and a BS Rank of 52% (7,971 of 16,562 topics). This Police Investigation is worse (more manipulative) than 51.90% of the peer group. Police Investigation
Topic details
Total words: 9,050
Article count: 7
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Ranking context Position among analyzed topics
52% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 51.9% percentile 3.1% BS Score7 analyzed articles9.1K analyzed words
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0.0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% Appeal to Emotion Sitewide 15.9% Topic 8.7% 8.7% In-Group Bias Sitewide 6.9% Topic 1.0% 1.0% Optimism Bias Sitewide 6.0% Topic 0.2% 0.2% Halo Effect Sitewide 6.7% Topic 1.4% 1.4% Confirmation Bias Sitewide 7.5% Topic 3.0% 3.0% Overconfidence Bias Sitewide 4.6% Topic 0.6% 0.6% Appeal to Authority Sitewide 11.1% Topic 7.4% 7.4% Self-Serving Bias Sitewide 3.7% Topic 0.5% 0.5% Unattributed Quote Sitewide 1.1% Topic 4.0% 4.0% Anchoring Bias Sitewide 4.0% 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 27.9%, sitewide 26.9% Negativity Bias: Topic 19.3%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Emotion: Topic 8.7%, sitewide 15.9% Appeal to Authority: Topic 7.4%, sitewide 11.1% Availability Heuristic: Topic 7.8%, sitewide 9.1% Hasty Generalization: Topic 5.2%, sitewide 8.1% Confirmation Bias: Topic 3.0%, sitewide 7.5% In-Group Bias: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 6.9% Halo Effect: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 6.7% Optimism Bias: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 6.0% Biased Writer Voice: Topic 3.0%, sitewide 5.3% Anecdotal: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 5.2% Overconfidence Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 4.6% Anchoring Bias: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 4.0% Unattributed Quote: Topic 4.0%, sitewide 1.1% Self-Serving Bias: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 3.7% Slippery Slope: Topic 3.6%, sitewide 1.7% Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 0.9%, sitewide 3.3% Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 3.1% Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 2.7% Recency Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 2.7% Loss Aversion: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 2.5% Red Herring: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 0.7% Bandwagon: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 2.2% Framing Effect Sitewide rate Topic rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst