Topic summary
⁠2%4 analyzed articles/videos1,309 analyzed words
BS Summary: These City Council Meeting results contain 11 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Loss Aversion, and Appeal to Authority, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 1.5% saturation with 64 hits. Analysis detected 365 faulty-reasoning hits from 4,236 analyzed words across 4 articles, generating a BS Score of 0.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠2% (22,321 of 22,619 topics). This City Council Meeting is better (less manipulative) than 98.70% of the peer group.
City Council Meeting
Topic details
Total words: 4,236
Article count: 4
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

1% percentile
02550751001.3% percentile
0.8% BS Score4 analyzed articles4.2K 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 1.1%1.1%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 0.9%0.9%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 0.9%0.9%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 0.5%0.5%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Topic 0.8%0.8%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 1.5%1.5%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Topic 0.9%0.9%Loss AversionSitewide 2.5%Topic 1.0%1.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Topic 0.1%0.1%Sunk Cost EffectSitewide 0.3%Topic 0.7%0.7%

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 1.1%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Authority: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 11.1%Halo Effect: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 5.3%Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 4.0%Loss Aversion: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 2.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 0.1%, sitewide 0.8%Sunk Cost Effect: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 0.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 0.5%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

Analyzed articles and videos