BS Summary: These Snopes results contain 52 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Unattributed Quote, and Hasty Generalization, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 6.5% saturation with 6,367 hits. Analysis detected 54,905 faulty-reasoning hits from 97,858 analyzed words across 25 articles, generating a BS Score of 1.1% and a BS Rank of 6% (157 of 166 publications). This Snopes is better (less manipulative) than 94.50% of the peer group.
Publication details
Total words: 97,858
Article count: 25
Authors
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Attribute Prevalence (Top 48)
Snopes attribute prevalence percentages (biases/fallacies), sorted highest to lowest.
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Snopes vs All Other Publications
Snopes attribute percentages, with an overlaid baseline for all publications (Overall) for those same attributes.