Topic summary
⁠94%3 analyzed articles/videos2,246 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Transportation Policy results contain 39 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Anecdotal, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 21.1% saturation with 1,740 hits. Analysis detected 9,934 faulty-reasoning hits from 8,238 analyzed words across 3 articles, generating a BS Score of 3.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠66% (8,547 of 24,569 topics). This Transportation Policy is worse (more manipulative) than 65.20% of the peer group.
Transportation Policy
Topic details
Total words: 8,238
Article count: 3
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

65% percentile
025507510065.2% percentile
3.1% BS Score3 analyzed articles8.2K 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 17.1%17.1%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 1.5%1.5%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 10.3%10.3%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 2.0%2.0%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 21.1%21.1%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 1.6%1.6%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 4.3%4.3%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 5.3%5.3%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Topic 1.6%1.6%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Topic 0.9%0.9%

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 17.1%, sitewide 26.9%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 21.1%, sitewide 15.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 10.3%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Authority: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 5.3%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 4.3%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 2.0%, sitewide 7.5%Anecdotal: Topic 7.0%, sitewide 5.2%Optimism Bias: Topic 6.9%, sitewide 6.0%In-Group Bias: Topic 5.9%, sitewide 6.9%Halo Effect: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 6.7%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 5.3%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 4.9%, sitewide 3.7%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 3.3%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.9%, sitewide 4.0%Begging the Question: Topic 3.5%, sitewide 1.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 3.0%, sitewide 3.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 3.1%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 2.7%Loss Aversion: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 2.5%Bandwagon: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 2.2%Status Quo Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 2.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 1.9%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

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