Speaker summary
56%2 analyzed articles/videos66 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Ben Franklin results contain 4 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Quote-first Misdirection, and Unattributed Quote, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 68.7% saturation with 46.707 hits. Analysis detected 157.707 faulty-reasoning hits from 66 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 60.9% and a BS Rank of 76% (6,941 of 28,364 speakers). This Ben Franklin is worse (more manipulative) than 75.50% of the peer group.
Ben Franklin
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Speaker details
Total words: 66
Article count: 2
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

76% percentile
025507510075.5% percentile
60.9% BS Score2 analyzed videos66 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–125%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%120%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 68.7%68.7%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 37.4%37.4%Unattributed QuoteSitewide 1.1%Speaker 37.4%37.4%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%80%80%100%100%120%120%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 7.5%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 68.7%, sitewide 11.1%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 37.4%, sitewide 0.0%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 37.4%, sitewide 1.1%Confirmation BiasSitewide rateSpeaker rate