ABC News99%

Christopher Nolan on 'The Odyssey' star Matt Damon 98%

7/18/2026, 5:38:25 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 27 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Availability Heuristic, and Appeal to Authority, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 55.6% saturation with 100 hits. Analysis detected 935 faulty-reasoning hits from 180 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 96.3% and a BS Rank of 98% (596 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 97.30% of the video peer group.

You've also been quoted, "This movie would be unthinkable without Matt Damon." 
>> I knew it was going to be grueling and and it was uh unthinkable without him in 
the sense of of you need a partner who will lead from the front, who's really taking on these challenges, embracing them, and enjoying them. 
>> I've never seen anyone work more physically hard. It's never a word of compl but he loved it. You could tell, you know, he 
>> loved it. 
>> I felt like I can't believe like I got a chance to do this. I mean, this way of 
making films isn't isn't normal. What an opportunity. 
>> I have to say something nice about you. 
I'm so sorry. 
>> Everything that Matt just described doesn't work unless you have a phenomenal number one on the call sheet. 
And I came away from this experience with a lot of revelations. And one of them was you were one of the best number ones I think that has ever 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 12.2%ABC News: 2.2%Confirmation Bias12.2%This article: 10.0%ABC News: 0.7%Anchoring Bias10.0%This article: 41.7%ABC News: 3.0%Availability Heuristic41.7%This article: 13.9%ABC News: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic13.9%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 30.6%ABC News: 1.1%Overconfidence Bias30.6%This article: 6.7%ABC News: 6.8%Framing Effect6.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 11.1%ABC News: 2.4%Optimism Bias11.1%This article: 14.4%ABC News: 1.0%Pessimism Bias14.4%This article: 15.6%ABC News: 7.7%Negativity Bias15.6%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 24.4%ABC News: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error24.4%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 49.4%ABC News: 2.2%Halo Effect49.4%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 16.7%ABC News: 1.3%Recency Bias16.7%This article: 11.1%ABC News: 0.4%Primacy Effect11.1%This article: 5.0%ABC News: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias5.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 38.9%ABC News: 3.3%Appeal to Authority38.9%This article: 10.6%ABC News: 0.9%False Dilemma10.6%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 30.6%ABC News: 2.8%Hasty Generalization30.6%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 13.9%ABC News: 0.4%Bandwagon13.9%This article: 18.9%ABC News: 4.3%Appeal to Emotion18.9%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 10.6%ABC News: 0.4%Burden of Proof10.6%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 13.9%ABC News: 0.2%Composition/Division13.9%This article: 55.6%ABC News: 1.2%Anecdotal55.6%This article: 6.7%ABC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman6.7%This article: 28.3%ABC News: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)28.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 10.0%ABC News: 0.0%Personal Incredulity10.0%This article: 5.0%ABC News: 0.2%Special Pleading5.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.9%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 3.1%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 13.9%ABC News: 0.6%Indoctrination13.9%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

180 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker11%attributed speech161writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverageMatt • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 0.0% coverage
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Matt

100%flagged-word coverage
19 attributed words100% of attributed speech95% writer coverage
0%10.0%20.0%Indoctrination-15.5 ptsWriter: 15.5%Matt: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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