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Author: CBC Docs

CBC Docs has ^24.5% among authors. BS Score: 2%. Articles analyzed: 8. Words analyzed: 15,420.

Top reasoning patterns

Negativity Bias - 11.3% (1,743 hits)
Framing Effect - 9% (1,384 hits)
Appeal to Emotion - 8% (1,228 hits)
Confirmation Bias - 6% (918 hits)
Appeal to Authority - 5.4% (834 hits)
Biased Writer Voice - 5.3% (816 hits)
Anecdotal - 5.1% (781 hits)
Hasty Generalization - 5% (777 hits)

Analyzed articles

Watching for wildfires: The lonely job of B.C.’s last fire lookouts ^25.6%

CBC - By CBC Docs - 5/20/2026, 6:59 PM

Halo Effect 20% - Appeal to Emotion 18.7% - Anecdotal 15.3%

“Lookouts are pretty simple,” says B.C. fire-watcher Bart Vanderlinde. “You have a guy looking for a forest fire 12 hours a day.” High atop Sinkut Mountain in northern B.C., Vanderlinde begins each summer day the same way — scanning the forest for smoke. “You get up, get out of bed … grab the binoculars and scan around,” he says. more

More than 300 people have died climbing Everest. A retired Sherpa returns to the mountain to bring home a body ^1.4%

CBC - By CBC Docs - 5/1/2026, 4:08 PM

Appeal to Emotion 5.2% - Biased Writer Voice 4.8% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 3.5%

Mount Everest has become the highest graveyard on Earth. Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first summited Everest in 1953, more than 7,000 people have reached the peak. But over 300 climbers have died on the mountain — and 132 were working Sherpas. To this day, around 200 bodies remain on the mountain, frozen in ice and snow. In... more

Surveillance footage reveals the truth about Soleiman Faqiri's death in prison ^82.5%

CBC - By CBC Docs - 11/13/2024, 8:51 PM

Biased Writer Voice 39% - Framing Effect 34.6% - Appeal to Emotion 30%

On Dec. 15, 2016, Soleiman Faqiri died in a jail cell while being restrained by correctional officers at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ont. He had schizoaffective disorder and had been arrested 11 days earlier, accused of stabbing a neighbour during a psychotic episode. The documentary My Brother, Soleiman follows... more

When it comes to medically assisted dying, critics say Canada has left people with mental illness behind ^29.2%

CBC Documentaries - By CBC Docs - 10/30/2024, 8:55 PM

Negativity Bias 44.1% - Appeal to Emotion 33.1% - Biased Writer Voice 21.1%

Canada is one of a handful of countries where it is legal for individuals to seek out medical assistance in dying (MAID) if they are terminally ill or intolerably suffering — just not if this suffering is solely caused by a mental disorder. In 2021, the Senate passed a bill that would expand access to MAID to people with grievous and... more

Meet 'the fastest gay on Earth' ^42.7%

CBC - By CBC Docs - 10/23/2024, 4:16 PM

Out-Group Homogeneity Bias 21.7% - Anecdotal 21.7% - Framing Effect 12%

Meet Travis Shumake: a professional drag racer who has been called "the fastest gay on Earth." He drives a Top Fuel dragster in the National Hot Rod Association. "I grew up wanting to be a professional racecar driver," Shumake tells Timothy Caulfield — a misinformation expert and educator — in the documentary Harder Better Faster... more

Gender and sex: Looking back on 100 years of 'the worst scientific research' ^86.3%

CBC - By CBC Docs - 3/27/2024, 4:22 PM

Politically Left Leaning Bias 43.2% - Attempt to Sell a Product or Service 41% - Negativity Bias 39.3%

Today, the mainstream scientific consensus is that gender and sexuality exist on a spectrum throughout nature, but that hasn't always been the view. In Fluid: Life Beyond the Binary, a documentary from The Nature of Things, historian Jules Gill-Peterson and host Mae Martin look back on several milestones in the flawed (but still... more

Your pet cat is probably a killer — but it doesn't have to be that way ^50.5%

CBC Documentaries - By CBC Docs - 3/27/2024, 2:35 PM

Negativity Bias 23.8% - Appeal to Authority 22.9% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 21.3%

When filmmaker Gavin Andrews took in an injured stray tomcat, he wasn't expecting his good deed to be repaid with the lifeless bodies of small birds. "Taika survived outdoors for years, and he makes life miserable for everyone if he's not allowed outside. So at first, we were happy to oblige," says Andrews. "Then came the birds — bits... more

Historians believe the Duke of Windsor actively collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War ^36.6%

CBC Documentaries - By CBC Docs - 11/10/2022, 3:39 PM

Confirmation Bias 25.1% - Negativity Bias 24.1% - Appeal to Emotion 17.4%

The late Duke of Windsor is perhaps most known for abdicating the throne in 1936, less than a year after succeeding his father as King Edward VIII, to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson.. But what happened afterward is where the true scandal lies. In the documentary <em>Edward VIII: Britain's Traitor King</em>, experts unearth... more

Author: CBC Docs

Top reasoning patterns

Analyzed articles

Watching for wildfires: The lonely job of B.C.’s last fire lookouts 25.6%

More than 300 people have died climbing Everest. A retired Sherpa returns to the mountain to bring home a body 1.4%

Surveillance footage reveals the truth about Soleiman Faqiri's death in prison 82.5%

When it comes to medically assisted dying, critics say Canada has left people with mental illness behind 29.2%

Meet 'the fastest gay on Earth' 42.7%

Gender and sex: Looking back on 100 years of 'the worst scientific research' 86.3%

Your pet cat is probably a killer — but it doesn't have to be that way 50.5%

Historians believe the Duke of Windsor actively collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War 36.6%