Topic summary
77%5 analyzed articles/videos2,416 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Flash Flooding results contain 24 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Authority, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 18.6% saturation with 1,700 hits. Analysis detected 5,538 faulty-reasoning hits from 9,143 analyzed words across 5 articles, generating a BS Score of 2.5% and a BS Rank of 53% (11,581 of 24,545 topics). This Flash Flooding is worse (more manipulative) than 52.80% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

53% percentile
025507510052.8% percentile
2.5% BS Score5 analyzed articles9.1K 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 6.6%6.6%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 2.0%2.0%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 0.2%0.2%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 0.9%0.9%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 0.4%0.4%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 5.7%5.7%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 0.9%0.9%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Topic 0.8%0.8%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Topic 1.2%1.2%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Topic 1.0%1.0%

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 6.6%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 18.6%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 2.0%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 5.7%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 8.7%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 7.5%Halo Effect: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 3.2%, sitewide 4.0%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 3.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 2.3%, sitewide 3.3%Recency Bias: Topic 1.8%, sitewide 2.7%Status Quo Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 2.2%Pessimism Bias: Topic 2.2%, sitewide 1.9%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 1.9%Hindsight Bias: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 1.4%Unattributed Quote: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 1.1%Primacy Effect: Topic 0.0%, sitewide 0.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 0.7%, sitewide 0.8%Red Herring: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 0.7%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate