Topic summary
⁠73%2 analyzed articles/videos842 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Retail Industry results contain 29 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Framing Effect, and Hasty Generalization, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 17.3% saturation with 718 hits. Analysis detected 5,475 faulty-reasoning hits from 4,158 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 4.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠73% (4,536 of 16,559 topics). This Retail Industry is worse (more manipulative) than 72.60% of the peer group.
Retail Industry
Topic ranking list
Topic details
Total words: 4,158
Article count: 2
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

73% percentile
025507510072.6% percentile
4.5% BS Score2 analyzed articles4.2K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 5.4%5.4%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Topic 13.9%13.9%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 16.7%16.7%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 6.7%6.7%Attempt to Sell a Product…Sitewide 0.5%Topic 7.0%7.0%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 17.3%17.3%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 3.8%3.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Topic 5.2%5.2%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Topic 2.5%2.5%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 5.0%5.0%

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 13.9%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 5.4%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Authority: Topic 17.3%, sitewide 11.1%Optimism Bias: Topic 16.7%, sitewide 6.0%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 6.7%, sitewide 15.9%Hasty Generalization: Topic 9.8%, sitewide 8.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 3.8%, sitewide 9.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 5.0%, sitewide 7.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service: Topic 7.0%, sitewide 0.5%Halo Effect: Topic 5.2%, sitewide 6.7%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 3.5%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Topic 2.5%, sitewide 5.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 5.2%, sitewide 0.8%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 5.0%, sitewide 4.6%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 4.5%, sitewide 3.7%Anchoring Bias: Topic 2.6%, sitewide 4.0%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 3.8%, sitewide 3.3%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 3.5%, sitewide 1.9%Recency Bias: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 2.7%Bandwagon: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 2.2%Status Quo Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 2.2%Ad Hominem: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 2.2%Pessimism Bias: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 1.9%Quote-first Misdirection: Topic 1.9%, sitewide 0.0%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

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