Topic summary
0%1 analyzed article/video342 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Transit Security results contain 23 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Framing Effect, and Confirmation Bias, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 24.3% saturation with 333 hits. Analysis detected 1,431 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,368 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 4.5% and a BS Rank of 73% (4,533 of 16,562 topics). This Transit Security is worse (more manipulative) than 72.60% of the peer group.
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Topic details
Total words: 1,368
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

73% percentile
025507510072.6% percentile
4.5% BS Score1 analyzed articles1.4K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 24.3%24.3%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Topic 9.7%9.7%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 3.4%3.4%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 2.1%2.1%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 2.3%2.3%Attempt to Sell a Product…Sitewide 0.5%Topic 4.5%4.5%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Topic 2.0%2.0%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 5.0%5.0%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Topic 4.0%4.0%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Topic 2.0%2.0%

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 9.7%, sitewide 26.9%Optimism Bias: Topic 24.3%, sitewide 6.0%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 15.0%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 3.4%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 5.0%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 7.9%, sitewide 7.5%Halo Effect: Topic 2.3%, sitewide 6.7%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 2.0%, sitewide 5.3%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 5.3%, sitewide 3.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service: Topic 4.5%, sitewide 0.5%Anchoring Bias: Topic 2.0%, sitewide 4.0%Bandwagon: Topic 4.0%, sitewide 2.2%Begging the Question: Topic 4.0%, sitewide 1.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 4.0%, sitewide 3.3%Recency Bias: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 2.7%Status Quo Bias: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 2.2%False Dilemma: Topic 1.8%, sitewide 1.5%Sunk Cost Effect: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 0.3%Hindsight Bias: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 1.0%, sitewide 0.8%Primacy Effect: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 0.9%Indoctrination: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 0.0%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

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