Speaker summary
⁠69%3 analyzed articles/videos133.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Alexis de Tocqueville results contain 4 faulty reasoning types, including Quote-first Misdirection, Appeal to Emotion, and Circular Reasoning, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 65.7% saturation with 92.341 hits. Analysis detected 195.378 faulty-reasoning hits from 133.667 analyzed words across 3 articles, generating a BS Score of 31.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠50% (14,286 of 28,364 speakers). This Alexis de Tocqueville is better (less manipulative) than 50.40% of the peer group.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Speaker details
Total words: 133.667
Article count: 3
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

50% percentile
025507510049.6% percentile
31.7% BS Score3 analyzed videos133.7 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–75%
0.0%20%40%60%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 65.7%65.7%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 37.8%37.8%Circular ReasoningSitewide 0.1%Speaker 11.6%11.6%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 11.6%11.6%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 65.7%, sitewide 11.1%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 37.8%, sitewide 0.0%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 11.6%, sitewide 15.9%Circular Reasoning: Speaker 11.6%, sitewide 0.1%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos