Author summary
7% 29 analyzed articles/videos 3,427 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Sun-Times Wire results contain 29 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote , Appeal to Authority , and Availability Heuristic , with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 8.6% saturation with 1,331 hits . Analysis detected 5,029 faulty-reasoning hits from 15,536 analyzed words across 29 articles, generating a BS Score of 1.1% and a BS Rank of 8% (7,877 of 8,524 authors). This Sun-Times Wire is better (less manipulative) than 92.40% of the peer group. Sun-Times Wire
Author details
Total words: 15,536
Article count: 29
Publications
Ranking context Position among analyzed authors
8% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 7.6% percentile 1.1% BS Score29 analyzed articles15.5K analyzed words
Reasoning profile Selected profile versus the sitewide rate
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Shared scale 0–50%
0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Author 1.9% 1.9% Appeal to Emotion Sitewide 15.9% Author 0.7% 0.7% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Author 8.6% 8.6% Hasty Generalization Sitewide 8.1% Author 0.4% 0.4% Appeal to Authority Sitewide 11.1% Author 3.6% 3.6% Confirmation Bias Sitewide 7.5% Author 0.4% 0.4% Availability Heuristic Sitewide 9.1% Author 2.0% 2.0% Halo Effect Sitewide 6.7% Author 0.2% 0.2% Optimism Bias Sitewide 6.0% Author 0.8% 0.8% Anecdotal Sitewide 5.2% Author 0.6% 0.6% 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 1.9%, sitewide 26.9% Negativity Bias: Author 8.6%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Emotion: Author 0.7%, sitewide 15.9% Appeal to Authority: Author 3.6%, sitewide 11.1% Availability Heuristic: Author 2.0%, sitewide 9.1% Hasty Generalization: Author 0.4%, sitewide 8.1% Confirmation Bias: Author 0.4%, sitewide 7.5% Halo Effect: Author 0.2%, sitewide 6.7% Optimism Bias: Author 0.8%, sitewide 6.0% Biased Writer Voice: Author 1.6%, sitewide 5.3% Anecdotal: Author 0.6%, sitewide 5.2% Overconfidence Bias: Author 0.1%, sitewide 4.6% Unattributed Quote: Author 4.3%, sitewide 1.1% Anchoring Bias: Author 0.8%, sitewide 4.0% Post Hoc (False Cause): Author 0.9%, sitewide 3.3% Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Author 0.0%, sitewide 3.1% Fundamental Attribution Error: Author 0.5%, sitewide 2.7% Recency Bias: Author 0.6%, sitewide 2.7% Loss Aversion: Author 0.1%, sitewide 2.5% Status Quo Bias: Author 0.2%, sitewide 2.2% Representativeness Heuristic: Author 0.2%, sitewide 1.9% Ambiguity (Equivocation): Author 1.8%, sitewide 0.8% Hindsight Bias: Author 0.3%, sitewide 1.4% Politically Right Leaning Bias: Author 0.1%, sitewide 1.4% Framing Effect Sitewide rate Author rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst