Author summary
30% 2 analyzed articles/videos 427 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Block Club Chicago Staff results contain 22 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect , Unattributed Quote , and Attempt to Sell a Product or Service , with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 12.9% saturation with 452 hits . Analysis detected 2,192 faulty-reasoning hits from 3,493 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 2.9% and a BS Rank of 66% (3,052 of 8,907 authors). This Block Club Chicago Staff is worse (more manipulative) than 65.70% of the peer group. Block Club Chicago Staff
Author details
Total words: 3,493
Article count: 2
Publications
Ranking context Position among analyzed authors
66% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 65.7% percentile 2.9% BS Score2 analyzed articles3.5K analyzed words
Reasoning profile Selected profile versus the sitewide rate
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0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Author 2.5% 2.5% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Author 3.2% 3.2% Hasty Generalization Sitewide 8.1% Author 2.3% 2.3% Optimism Bias Sitewide 6.0% Author 1.3% 1.3% Anecdotal Sitewide 5.2% Author 1.2% 1.2% Confirmation Bias Sitewide 7.5% Author 3.8% 3.8% Halo Effect Sitewide 6.7% Author 10.3% 10.3% Biased Writer Voice Sitewide 5.3% Author 1.9% 1.9% Attempt to Sell a Product… Sitewide 0.5% Author 3.8% 3.8% Unattributed Quote Sitewide 1.1% Author 4.0% 4.0% 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: Author 2.5%, sitewide 26.9% Negativity Bias: Author 3.2%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Authority: Author 12.9%, sitewide 11.1% Halo Effect: Author 10.3%, sitewide 6.7% Hasty Generalization: Author 2.3%, sitewide 8.1% Confirmation Bias: Author 3.8%, sitewide 7.5% Optimism Bias: Author 1.3%, sitewide 6.0% Biased Writer Voice: Author 1.9%, sitewide 5.3% Anecdotal: Author 1.2%, sitewide 5.2% Overconfidence Bias: Author 1.8%, sitewide 4.6% Unattributed Quote: Author 4.0%, sitewide 1.1% Attempt to Sell a Product or Service: Author 3.8%, sitewide 0.5% Bandwagon: Author 3.6%, sitewide 2.2% Fundamental Attribution Error: Author 1.1%, sitewide 2.7% Recency Bias: Author 1.7%, sitewide 2.7% Loss Aversion: Author 0.7%, sitewide 2.5% Representativeness Heuristic: Author 0.6%, sitewide 1.9% Ambiguity (Equivocation): Author 1.7%, sitewide 0.8% Sunk Cost Effect: Author 1.4%, sitewide 0.3% Quote-first Misdirection: Author 1.3%, sitewide 0.0% Composition/Division: Author 1.0%, sitewide 0.2% Burden of Proof: Author 0.6%, sitewide 0.4% Framing Effect Sitewide rate Author rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst