Topic summary
0%1 analyzed article/video622 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Transportation Projects results contain 20 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Appeal to Emotion, and Negativity Bias, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 18.3% saturation with 342 hits. Analysis detected 2,046 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,866 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 5.5% and a BS Rank of 80% (3,432 of 16,562 topics). This Transportation Projects is worse (more manipulative) than 79.30% of the peer group.
Transportation Projects
Topic details
Total words: 1,866
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

79% percentile
025507510079.3% percentile
5.5% BS Score1 analyzed articles1.9K 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 18.3%18.3%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Topic 17.9%17.9%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 2.6%2.6%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Topic 0.4%0.4%Red HerringSitewide 0.7%Topic 7.1%7.1%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 13.0%13.0%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 1.5%1.5%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 4.8%4.8%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Topic 1.0%1.0%Politically Left Leaning …Sitewide 2.0%Topic 4.8%4.8%

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 17.9%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 13.0%, sitewide 19.2%Optimism Bias: Topic 18.3%, sitewide 6.0%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 16.7%, sitewide 15.9%Availability Heuristic: Topic 2.6%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 4.8%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 7.5%Red Herring: Topic 7.1%, sitewide 0.7%In-Group Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 6.9%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 5.5%, sitewide 5.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias: Topic 4.8%, sitewide 2.0%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 4.7%, sitewide 3.7%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 4.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 3.1%Straw Man: Topic 3.0%, sitewide 0.9%Ad Hominem: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 2.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 1.9%Politically Right Leaning Bias: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 1.4%Actor-Observer Bias: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 0.6%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

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