Topic summary
⁠96%2 analyzed articles/videos1,484 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Transportation Policy results contain 38 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Negativity Bias, and In-Group Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 28.8% saturation with 1,282 hits. Analysis detected 7,416 faulty-reasoning hits from 4,452 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 4.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠72% (4,751 of 16,562 topics). This Transportation Policy is worse (more manipulative) than 71.30% of the peer group.
Transportation Policy
Topic details
Total words: 4,452
Article count: 2
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

71% percentile
025507510071.3% percentile
4.4% BS Score2 analyzed articles4.5K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 27.1%27.1%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 2.7%2.7%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 2.3%2.3%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 3.8%3.8%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Topic 7.2%7.2%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Topic 2.3%2.3%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 5.1%5.1%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Topic 1.6%1.6%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Topic 4.0%4.0%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Topic 9.1%9.1%

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 28.8%, sitewide 26.9%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 27.1%, sitewide 15.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 17.5%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Authority: Topic 2.7%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 8.2%, sitewide 9.1%In-Group Bias: Topic 9.1%, sitewide 6.9%Hasty Generalization: Topic 5.1%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 3.8%, sitewide 7.5%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 7.2%, sitewide 3.7%Halo Effect: Topic 2.3%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 5.8%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 2.3%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Topic 3.4%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 3.8%, sitewide 4.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Topic 4.4%, sitewide 3.1%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 4.3%, sitewide 3.3%Anchoring Bias: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 4.0%Begging the Question: Topic 4.0%, sitewide 1.7%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 2.5%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 2.7%Loss Aversion: Topic 2.3%, sitewide 2.5%Primacy Effect: Topic 2.3%, sitewide 0.9%Bandwagon: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 2.2%Status Quo Bias: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 2.2%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

Analyzed articles and videos