Publication summary
20%8 analyzed articles/videos6,107 analyzed words
BS Summary: These The Mercury News results contain 48 faulty reasoning types, including Hasty Generalization, Indoctrination, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 7% saturation with 1,815 hits. Analysis detected 15,985 faulty-reasoning hits from 25,985 analyzed words across 8 articles, generating a BS Score of 1.3% and a BS Rank of 18% (222 of 270 publications). This The Mercury News is better (less manipulative) than 82.20% of the peer group.
The Mercury News
Publication ranking list
PercentilePublicationBS Score
0%Houston Chronicle1%
1%FactCheck.org1%
1%WBEZ1%
2%@politifact1%
2%Cognoscenti1%
18%The Mercury News (selected)2%
99%Decatur Daily9%
99%The White House9%
100%MS NOW Insights Community23%
100%MS NOW Live Events26%
100%www.globalsecurity.org30%
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Attribute Prevalence (Top 48)
The Mercury News attribute prevalence percentages (biases/fallacies), sorted highest to lowest.
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The Mercury News vs sitewide
The Mercury News attribute percentages, with an overlaid sitewide baseline for those same attributes.