Topic summary
⁠66%1 analyzed article/video344 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Travelers results contain 20 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 11% saturation with 151 hits. Analysis detected 969 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,376 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 3.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠71% (6,796 of 22,971 topics). This Travelers is worse (more manipulative) than 70.40% of the peer group.
Travelers
Topic details
Total words: 1,376
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

70% percentile
025507510070.4% percentile
3.5% BS Score1 analyzed articles1.4K 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 4.7%4.7%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 4.9%4.9%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 4.1%4.1%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 0.8%0.8%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 3.8%3.8%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 3.2%3.2%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 2.2%2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)Sitewide 3.3%Topic 7.0%7.0%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Topic 1.0%1.0%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Topic 0.8%0.8%

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 4.7%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 4.9%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 4.1%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 11.0%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 3.8%, sitewide 9.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 8.7%, sitewide 7.5%Hasty Generalization: Topic 3.2%, sitewide 8.1%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 7.0%, sitewide 3.3%Halo Effect: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 2.2%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 2.5%, sitewide 5.3%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 3.2%, sitewide 4.0%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 3.7%Hindsight Bias: Topic 3.4%, sitewide 1.4%Recency Bias: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 2.7%Loss Aversion: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 2.5%Indoctrination: Topic 2.2%, sitewide 0.0%Unattributed Quote: Topic 2.2%, sitewide 1.1%Pessimism Bias: Topic 2.0%, sitewide 1.9%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

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