Speaker summary
77%13 analyzed articles/videos510.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These BestReviews results contain 13 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Appeal to Authority, and Appeal to Emotion, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 37.1% saturation with 315 hits. Analysis detected 1,116.465 faulty-reasoning hits from 510.333 analyzed words across 13 articles, generating a BS Score of 12.4% and a BS Rank of 17% (23,627 of 28,364 speakers). This BestReviews is better (less manipulative) than 83.30% of the peer group.
BestReviews
Speaker ranking list
Speaker details
Total words: 510.333
Article count: 13
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

17% percentile
025507510016.7% percentile
12.4% BS Score13 analyzed videos510.3 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Attempt to Sell a Product…Sitewide 0.5%Speaker 46.5%46.5%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Speaker 37.1%37.1%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 35.8%35.8%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 9.8%9.8%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 3.1%3.1%BandwagonSitewide 2.2%Speaker 6.4%6.4%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 3.0%3.0%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Speaker 6.6%6.6%Sunk Cost EffectSitewide 0.3%Speaker 3.0%3.0%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Speaker 2.1%2.1%

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%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service: Speaker 46.5%, sitewide 0.5%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 37.1%, sitewide 5.3%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 35.8%, sitewide 11.1%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 9.8%, sitewide 15.9%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 3.1%, sitewide 8.1%Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 6.6%, sitewide 3.7%Bandwagon: Speaker 6.4%, sitewide 2.2%Optimism Bias: Speaker 3.0%, sitewide 6.0%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 2.1%, sitewide 4.6%Recency Bias: Speaker 3.4%, sitewide 2.7%Sunk Cost Effect: Speaker 3.0%, sitewide 0.3%Blind-Spot Bias: Speaker 2.2%, sitewide 0.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 2.1%, sitewide 1.9%Attempt to Sell a Product or ServiceSitewide rateSpeaker rate

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