Speaker summary
⁠77%1 analyzed article/video204 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Assistant City Manager Brian Steffen results contain 8 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Nature, Fundamental Attribution Error, and Availability Heuristic, with Hasty Generalization as the most egregious example at 25.5% saturation with 52 hits. Analysis detected 224 faulty-reasoning hits from 204 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 13.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠20% (22,828 of 28,364 speakers). This Assistant City Manager Brian Steffen is better (less manipulative) than 80.50% of the peer group.
Assistant City Manager Brian Steffen
Speaker details
Total words: 204
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

20% percentile
025507510019.5% percentile
13.7% BS Score1 analyzed videos204 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 25.5%25.5%Appeal to NatureSitewide 0.2%Speaker 16.2%16.2%Fundamental Attribution E…Sitewide 2.7%Speaker 16.2%16.2%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Speaker 12.3%12.3%Loss AversionSitewide 2.5%Speaker 12.3%12.3%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 15.7%15.7%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 9.8%9.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Speaker 2.0%2.0%

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%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 25.5%, sitewide 8.1%Appeal to Nature: Speaker 16.2%, sitewide 0.2%Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 16.2%, sitewide 2.7%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 15.7%, sitewide 9.1%Indoctrination: Speaker 12.3%, sitewide 0.0%Loss Aversion: Speaker 12.3%, sitewide 2.5%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 9.8%, sitewide 7.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 2.0%, sitewide 0.8%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide rateSpeaker rate

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