Topic summary
86%1 analyzed article/video1,041 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Police Procedures results contain 26 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Negativity Bias, and Hasty Generalization, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 16.3% saturation with 510 hits. Analysis detected 3,032 faulty-reasoning hits from 3,123 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 3.7% and a BS Rank of 64% (6,081 of 16,562 topics). This Police Procedures is worse (more manipulative) than 63.30% of the peer group.
Police Procedures
Topic details
Total words: 3,123
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

63% percentile
025507510063.3% percentile
3.7% BS Score1 analyzed articles3.1K 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 3.6%3.6%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 1.6%1.6%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 9.7%9.7%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 16.3%16.3%Recency BiasSitewide 2.7%Topic 7.9%7.9%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Topic 1.3%1.3%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 9.4%9.4%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Topic 1.7%1.7%Fundamental Attribution E…Sitewide 2.7%Topic 1.2%1.2%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 10.6%10.6%

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 3.6%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 9.7%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Authority: Topic 16.3%, sitewide 11.1%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 15.9%Availability Heuristic: Topic 10.6%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 9.5%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 9.4%, sitewide 7.5%Recency Bias: Topic 7.9%, sitewide 2.7%Anecdotal: Topic 5.2%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 4.1%, sitewide 4.6%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 3.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 2.2%, sitewide 3.3%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 2.7%Bandwagon: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 2.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 1.8%, sitewide 1.9%Pessimism Bias: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 1.9%Slippery Slope: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 1.7%Quote-first Misdirection: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 0.0%Begging the Question: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 1.7%False Dilemma: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 1.5%Genetic Fallacy: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 1.4%Unattributed Quote: Topic 0.0%, sitewide 1.1%Circular Reasoning: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 0.1%Composition/Division: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 0.2%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

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