Topic summary
2%1 analyzed article/video198 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Laser Pointer Incident results contain 2 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, with Recency Bias as the most egregious example at 5.3% saturation with 21 hits. Analysis detected 33 faulty-reasoning hits from 396 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 4.2% and a BS Rank of 77% (5,167 of 21,787 topics). This Laser Pointer Incident is worse (more manipulative) than 76.30% of the peer group.
Laser Pointer Incident
Topic details
Total words: 396
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

76% percentile
025507510076.3% percentile
4.2% BS Score1 analyzed articles396 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–10%
0.0%2%4%6%8%10%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 3.0%3.0%Recency BiasSitewide 2.7%Topic 5.3%5.3%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%2%2%4%4%6%6%8%8%10%10%Availability Heuristic: Topic 3.0%, sitewide 9.1%Recency Bias: Topic 5.3%, sitewide 2.7%Availability HeuristicSitewide rateTopic rate

Analyzed articles and videos