Topic summary
2%1 analyzed article/video736 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Obtaining Police Reports results contain 13 faulty reasoning types, including False Dilemma, Loss Aversion, and Optimism Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 1.9% saturation with 56 hits. Analysis detected 351 faulty-reasoning hits from 2,944 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 0.9% and a BS Rank of 3% (21,421 of 21,961 topics). This Obtaining Police Reports is better (less manipulative) than 97.50% of the peer group.
Obtaining Police Reports
Topic details
Total words: 2,944
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

3% percentile
02550751002.5% percentile
0.9% BS Score1 analyzed articles2.9K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Topic 0.8%0.8%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 0.8%0.8%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 0.7%0.7%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 1.9%1.9%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 0.4%0.4%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 1.1%1.1%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Topic 0.3%0.3%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Topic 0.6%0.6%Recency BiasSitewide 2.7%Topic 0.7%0.7%Representativeness Heuris…Sitewide 1.9%Topic 0.7%0.7%

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: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 19.2%Availability Heuristic: Topic 1.9%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 8.1%Halo Effect: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 1.1%, sitewide 6.0%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 4.0%Recency Bias: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 2.7%Loss Aversion: Topic 1.4%, sitewide 2.5%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 1.9%False Dilemma: Topic 1.7%, sitewide 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Topic 0.8%, sitewide 0.8%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

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