Topic summary
53%7 analyzed articles/videos8,800 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Financial Fraud results contain 48 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Confirmation Bias, with Hasty Generalization as the most egregious example at 8.9% saturation with 3,121 hits. Analysis detected 26,430 faulty-reasoning hits from 35,200 analyzed words across 7 articles, generating a BS Score of 1.6% and a BS Rank of 21% (17,540 of 21,951 topics). This Financial Fraud is better (less manipulative) than 79.90% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

20% percentile
025507510020.1% percentile
1.6% BS Score7 analyzed articles35.2K 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 3.0%3.0%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 8.6%8.6%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 5.4%5.4%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 1.2%1.2%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Topic 0.4%0.4%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 0.4%0.4%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 2.8%2.8%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 0.6%0.6%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Topic 0.4%0.4%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Topic 0.3%0.3%

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 3.0%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 8.6%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 5.4%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 2.8%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 8.9%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 5.4%, sitewide 7.5%In-Group Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 6.9%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 6.8%, sitewide 5.3%Halo Effect: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 6.0%Anecdotal: Topic 4.2%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 4.0%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 3.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 2.4%, sitewide 3.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 3.1%Indoctrination: Topic 2.8%, sitewide 0.0%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 2.7%Loss Aversion: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 2.5%Bandwagon: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 2.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 2.2%, sitewide 1.9%Status Quo Bias: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 2.2%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate