Keyword summary
0%1 analyzed article/video742 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Associated-Press results contain 31 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Authority, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 39.7% saturation with 882 hits. Analysis detected 4,689 faulty-reasoning hits from 2,221 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 6.8% and a BS Rank of 93% (4,417 of 58,883 keywords). This Associated-Press is worse (more manipulative) than 92.50% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed keywords

93% percentile
025507510092.5% percentile
6.8% BS Score1 analyzed articles2.2K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

KeywordSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Keyword 39.7%39.7%Fundamental Attribution E…Sitewide 2.7%Keyword 11.9%11.9%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Keyword 25.7%25.7%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Keyword 9.8%9.8%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Keyword 1.4%1.4%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Keyword 11.8%11.8%Slippery SlopeSitewide 1.7%Keyword 6.7%6.7%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Keyword 4.4%4.4%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Keyword 14.9%14.9%Special PleadingSitewide 0.3%Keyword 3.9%3.9%

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%Appeal to Emotion: Keyword 39.7%, sitewide 15.9%Framing Effect: Keyword 24.4%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Keyword 25.7%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Authority: Keyword 14.9%, sitewide 11.1%Fundamental Attribution Error: Keyword 11.9%, sitewide 2.7%In-Group Bias: Keyword 11.8%, sitewide 6.9%Hasty Generalization: Keyword 11.0%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Keyword 9.8%, sitewide 7.5%Self-Serving Bias: Keyword 9.8%, sitewide 3.7%Availability Heuristic: Keyword 4.4%, sitewide 9.1%Halo Effect: Keyword 1.4%, sitewide 6.7%Slippery Slope: Keyword 6.7%, sitewide 1.7%Optimism Bias: Keyword 2.8%, sitewide 6.0%Ad Hominem: Keyword 4.5%, sitewide 2.2%Anchoring Bias: Keyword 1.1%, sitewide 4.0%Special Pleading: Keyword 3.9%, sitewide 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias: Keyword 3.8%, sitewide 0.6%Red Herring: Keyword 3.6%, sitewide 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic: Keyword 3.1%, sitewide 1.9%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Keyword 1.4%, sitewide 3.1%Hindsight Bias: Keyword 3.0%, sitewide 1.4%Pessimism Bias: Keyword 2.8%, sitewide 1.9%Recency Bias: Keyword 0.9%, sitewide 2.7%Loss Aversion: Keyword 0.7%, sitewide 2.5%Appeal to EmotionSitewide rateKeyword rate

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