Topic summary
17% 20 analyzed articles/videos 7,781 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Severe Weather results contain 40 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic , Appeal to Authority , and Indoctrination , with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 11% saturation with 3,195 hits . Analysis detected 15,919 faulty-reasoning hits from 29,015 analyzed words across 20 articles, generating a BS Score of 1.4% and a BS Rank of 5% (15,048 of 15,780 topics). This Severe Weather is better (less manipulative) than 95.40% of the peer group. Severe Weather
Topic details
Total words: 29,015
Article count: 20
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Ranking context Position among analyzed topics
5% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 4.6% percentile 1.4% BS Score20 analyzed articles29K analyzed words
Reasoning profile Selected profile versus the sitewide rate
Highest rates Largest gaps
Shared scale 0–50%
0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Topic 3.5% 3.5% Appeal to Emotion Sitewide 15.9% Topic 2.4% 2.4% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Topic 11.0% 11.0% Confirmation Bias Sitewide 7.5% Topic 0.2% 0.2% Hasty Generalization Sitewide 8.1% Topic 0.9% 0.9% In-Group Bias Sitewide 6.9% Topic 0.2% 0.2% Appeal to Authority Sitewide 11.1% Topic 4.6% 4.6% Halo Effect Sitewide 6.7% Topic 0.3% 0.3% Indoctrination Sitewide 0.0% Topic 4.5% 4.5% Overconfidence Bias Sitewide 4.6% 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 3.5%, sitewide 26.9% Negativity Bias: Topic 11.0%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Emotion: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 15.9% Appeal to Authority: Topic 4.6%, sitewide 11.1% Availability Heuristic: Topic 5.5%, sitewide 9.1% Hasty Generalization: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 8.1% Confirmation Bias: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 7.5% In-Group Bias: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 6.9% Halo Effect: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 6.7% Optimism Bias: Topic 2.0%, sitewide 6.0% Biased Writer Voice: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 5.3% Anecdotal: Topic 2.8%, sitewide 5.2% Overconfidence Bias: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 4.6% Indoctrination: Topic 4.5%, sitewide 0.0% Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 4.0% Self-Serving Bias: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 3.7% Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 1.2%, sitewide 3.3% Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 2.7% Recency Bias: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 2.7% Loss Aversion: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 2.5% Pessimism Bias: Topic 2.3%, sitewide 1.9% Bandwagon: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 2.2% Status Quo Bias: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 2.2% Politically Left Leaning Bias: Topic 0.1%, sitewide 2.0% Framing Effect Sitewide rate Topic rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst