Topic summary
⁠82%3 analyzed articles/videos1,565 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Mudslides results contain 21 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 21.1% saturation with 1,336 hits. Analysis detected 3,844 faulty-reasoning hits from 6,323 analyzed words across 3 articles, generating a BS Score of 2.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠62% (9,471 of 24,545 topics). This Mudslides is worse (more manipulative) than 61.40% of the peer group.
Mudslides

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

61% percentile
025507510061.4% percentile
2.9% BS Score3 analyzed articles6.3K 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 8.4%8.4%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 3.5%3.5%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 3.2%3.2%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 0.3%0.3%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 0.9%0.9%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 0.2%0.2%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Topic 0.3%0.3%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 2.1%2.1%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Topic 1.5%1.5%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Topic 2.5%2.5%

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 8.4%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 21.1%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 3.5%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 3.2%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 8.9%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 7.5%Halo Effect: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 6.0%Anecdotal: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 5.2%Anchoring Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 4.0%Pessimism Bias: Topic 3.2%, sitewide 1.9%Recency Bias: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 2.7%Indoctrination: Topic 2.5%, sitewide 0.0%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 1.9%Hindsight Bias: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 1.4%Unattributed Quote: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 1.1%Primacy Effect: Topic 0.1%, sitewide 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 0.0%Appeal to Nature: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 0.2%Blind-Spot Bias: Topic 0.1%, sitewide 0.2%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

Analyzed articles and videos