Topic summary
0% 1 analyzed article/video 1,879 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Police Recruits results contain 26 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect , Appeal to Authority , and Availability Heuristic , with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 31.4% saturation with 1,181 hits . Analysis detected 4,969 faulty-reasoning hits from 3,758 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 5.1% and a BS Rank of 77% (3,918 of 16,562 topics). This Police Recruits is worse (more manipulative) than 76.30% of the peer group. Police Recruits
Topic details
Total words: 3,758
Article count: 1
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Ranking context Position among analyzed topics
76% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 76.3% percentile 5.1% BS Score1 analyzed articles3.8K analyzed words
Reasoning profile Selected profile versus the sitewide rate
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Topic SitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Topic 31.4% 31.4% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Topic 16.1% 16.1% Hasty Generalization Sitewide 8.1% Topic 2.0% 2.0% Appeal to Emotion Sitewide 15.9% Topic 10.3% 10.3% Optimism Bias Sitewide 6.0% Topic 0.7% 0.7% In-Group Bias Sitewide 6.9% Topic 2.1% 2.1% Anchoring Bias Sitewide 4.0% Topic 0.2% 0.2% Overconfidence Bias Sitewide 4.6% Topic 2.4% 2.4% Status Quo Bias Sitewide 2.2% Topic 4.3% 4.3% Out-Group Homogeneity Bias Sitewide 3.1% Topic 1.2% 1.2% 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% Negativity Bias: Topic 31.4%, sitewide 19.2% Framing Effect: Topic 16.1%, sitewide 26.9% Appeal to Emotion: Topic 10.3%, sitewide 15.9% Appeal to Authority: Topic 11.3%, sitewide 11.1% Availability Heuristic: Topic 10.4%, sitewide 9.1% Hasty Generalization: Topic 2.0%, sitewide 8.1% Confirmation Bias: Topic 7.3%, sitewide 7.5% Anecdotal: Topic 6.9%, sitewide 5.2% In-Group Bias: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 6.9% Halo Effect: Topic 6.0%, sitewide 6.7% Optimism Bias: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 6.0% Overconfidence Bias: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 4.6% Self-Serving Bias: Topic 4.3%, sitewide 3.7% Status Quo Bias: Topic 4.3%, sitewide 2.2% Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 4.0% Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 3.4%, sitewide 3.3% Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 3.1% Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 2.5%, sitewide 2.7% Loss Aversion: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 2.5% Bandwagon: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 2.2% Pessimism Bias: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 1.9% Slippery Slope: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 1.7% Straw Man: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 0.9% False Dilemma: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 1.5% Negativity Bias Sitewide rate Topic rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst