Topic summary
⁠18%3 analyzed articles/videos1,959 analyzed words
BS Summary: These County Budget results contain 33 faulty reasoning types, including Self-Serving Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Availability Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 5.6% saturation with 484 hits. Analysis detected 2,798 faulty-reasoning hits from 8,698 analyzed words across 3 articles, generating a BS Score of 1% and a BS Rank of ⁠4% (23,605 of 24,545 topics). This County Budget is better (less manipulative) than 96.20% of the peer group.
County Budget
Topic details
Total words: 8,698
Article count: 3
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

4% percentile
02550751003.8% percentile
1.0% BS Score3 analyzed articles8.7K 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 0.4%0.4%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 1.8%1.8%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 5.6%5.6%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 1.2%1.2%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 1.1%1.1%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 2.1%2.1%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Topic 0.4%0.4%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 2.2%2.2%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Topic 0.5%0.5%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Topic 0.1%0.1%

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 0.4%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 5.6%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 1.8%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 2.2%, sitewide 7.5%In-Group Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 6.9%Optimism Bias: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 5.3%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 0.1%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 4.0%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 3.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 0.6%, sitewide 3.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 3.1%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 2.7%Loss Aversion: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 2.5%Status Quo Bias: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 2.2%Ad Hominem: Topic 0.1%, sitewide 2.2%Pessimism Bias: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 1.9%Slippery Slope: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 1.7%Begging the Question: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 1.7%False Dilemma: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 1.5%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

Analyzed articles and videos