Author summary
45% 1 analyzed article/video 620 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Washington Blade results contain 21 faulty reasoning types, including Politically Left Leaning Bias , Framing Effect , and Negativity Bias , with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 14.7% saturation with 365 hits . Analysis detected 2,090 faulty-reasoning hits from 2,480 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 4% and a BS Rank of 83% (1,660 of 9,487 authors). This Washington Blade is worse (more manipulative) than 82.50% of the peer group. Washington Blade
Author details
Total words: 2,480
Article count: 1
Publications
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83% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 82.5% percentile 4.0% BS Score1 analyzed articles2.5K analyzed words
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0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Author 10.0% 10.0% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Author 8.5% 8.5% Politically Left Leaning … Sitewide 2.0% Author 10.0% 10.0% Availability Heuristic Sitewide 9.1% Author 2.0% 2.0% Appeal to Authority Sitewide 11.1% Author 4.9% 4.9% Hasty Generalization Sitewide 8.1% Author 2.1% 2.1% Optimism Bias Sitewide 6.0% Author 0.6% 0.6% Indoctrination Sitewide 0.0% Author 3.4% 3.4% Anchoring Bias Sitewide 4.0% Author 1.1% 1.1% In-Group Bias Sitewide 6.9% Author 4.0% 4.0% 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: Author 10.0%, sitewide 26.9% Negativity Bias: Author 8.5%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Emotion: Author 14.7%, sitewide 15.9% Appeal to Authority: Author 4.9%, sitewide 11.1% Politically Left Leaning Bias: Author 10.0%, sitewide 2.0% Availability Heuristic: Author 2.0%, sitewide 9.1% Hasty Generalization: Author 2.1%, sitewide 8.1% Confirmation Bias: Author 5.0%, sitewide 7.5% In-Group Bias: Author 4.0%, sitewide 6.9% Optimism Bias: Author 0.6%, sitewide 6.0% Biased Writer Voice: Author 5.4%, sitewide 5.3% Anchoring Bias: Author 1.1%, sitewide 4.0% Indoctrination: Author 3.4%, sitewide 0.0% Ad Hominem: Author 3.0%, sitewide 2.2% Recency Bias: Author 1.1%, sitewide 2.7% Pessimism Bias: Author 2.4%, sitewide 1.9% Representativeness Heuristic: Author 2.0%, sitewide 1.9% Begging the Question: Author 1.3%, sitewide 1.7% Quote-first Misdirection: Author 1.5%, sitewide 0.0% Red Herring: Author 1.1%, sitewide 0.7% Attempt to Sell a Product or Service: Author 0.6%, sitewide 0.5% Framing Effect Sitewide rate Author rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst