Topic summary
⁠0%2 analyzed articles/videos1,844 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Winter Storms results contain 24 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Framing Effect, and Loss Aversion, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 20.3% saturation with 1,125 hits. Analysis detected 6,013 faulty-reasoning hits from 5,532 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 4.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠72% (4,362 of 15,352 topics). This Winter Storms is worse (more manipulative) than 71.60% of the peer group.
Winter Storms
Topic details
Total words: 5,532
Article count: 2
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

72% percentile
025507510071.6% percentile
4.5% BS Score2 analyzed articles5.5K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Topic 14.6%14.6%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 3.9%3.9%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 20.3%20.3%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 1.9%1.9%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Topic 0.7%0.7%Loss AversionSitewide 2.5%Topic 8.1%8.1%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 2.2%2.2%Pessimism BiasSitewide 1.9%Topic 6.3%6.3%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Topic 1.7%1.7%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Topic 1.3%1.3%

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 14.6%, sitewide 26.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 20.3%, sitewide 11.1%Negativity Bias: Topic 16.1%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 3.9%, sitewide 15.9%Availability Heuristic: Topic 7.4%, sitewide 9.1%Loss Aversion: Topic 8.1%, sitewide 2.5%Hasty Generalization: Topic 1.9%, sitewide 8.1%Anchoring Bias: Topic 7.3%, sitewide 4.0%In-Group Bias: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 6.9%Halo Effect: Topic 2.2%, sitewide 6.7%Pessimism Bias: Topic 6.3%, sitewide 1.9%Optimism Bias: Topic 3.9%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Topic 2.0%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 4.6%Recency Bias: Topic 3.4%, sitewide 2.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 0.7%, sitewide 3.3%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 2.7%Status Quo Bias: Topic 2.3%, sitewide 2.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 1.9%Unattributed Quote: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 1.1%Actor-Observer Bias: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 0.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 0.6%, sitewide 0.8%Dunning-Kruger Effect: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 0.1%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

Analyzed articles and videos