Topic summary
88% 10 analyzed articles/videos 5,994 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Government Shutdown results contain 48 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias , Framing Effect , and Hasty Generalization , with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 10.5% saturation with 3,077 hits . Analysis detected 30,544 faulty-reasoning hits from 29,391 analyzed words across 10 articles, generating a BS Score of 2.2% and a BS Rank of 43% (13,701 of 24,050 topics). This Government Shutdown is better (less manipulative) than 57.00% of the peer group. Government Shutdown
Topic details
Total words: 29,391
Article count: 10
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Ranking context Position among analyzed topics
43% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 43.0% percentile 2.2% BS Score10 analyzed articles29.4K analyzed words
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0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Topic 9.9% 9.9% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Topic 10.2% 10.2% Appeal to Authority Sitewide 11.1% Topic 2.4% 2.4% Availability Heuristic Sitewide 9.1% Topic 2.6% 2.6% Halo Effect Sitewide 6.7% Topic 1.2% 1.2% Appeal to Emotion Sitewide 15.9% Topic 10.5% 10.5% Confirmation Bias Sitewide 7.5% Topic 2.5% 2.5% Anecdotal Sitewide 5.2% Topic 1.5% 1.5% Optimism Bias Sitewide 6.0% Topic 2.4% 2.4% In-Group Bias Sitewide 6.9% Topic 3.5% 3.5% 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 9.9%, sitewide 26.9% Negativity Bias: Topic 10.2%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Emotion: Topic 10.5%, sitewide 15.9% Appeal to Authority: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 11.1% Availability Heuristic: Topic 2.6%, sitewide 9.1% Hasty Generalization: Topic 6.3%, sitewide 8.1% Confirmation Bias: Topic 2.5%, sitewide 7.5% In-Group Bias: Topic 3.5%, sitewide 6.9% Halo Effect: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 6.7% Optimism Bias: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 6.0% Biased Writer Voice: Topic 3.8%, sitewide 5.3% Anecdotal: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 5.2% Overconfidence Bias: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 4.6% Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 4.0% Ad Hominem: Topic 4.0%, sitewide 2.2% Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 3.9%, sitewide 3.3% Self-Serving Bias: Topic 2.3%, sitewide 3.7% Politically Right Leaning Bias: Topic 3.4%, sitewide 1.4% Indoctrination: Topic 3.2%, sitewide 0.0% Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 3.1% Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 2.8%, sitewide 2.7% Recency Bias: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 2.7% False Dilemma: Topic 2.6%, sitewide 1.5% Loss Aversion: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 2.5% Framing Effect Sitewide rate Topic rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst