Speaker summary
58%8 analyzed articles/videos415.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Bill Clinton results contain 17 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Quote-first Misdirection, and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 31.8% saturation with 207 hits. Analysis detected 959.122 faulty-reasoning hits from 415.667 analyzed words across 8 articles and videos, generating a BS Score of 10.2% and a BS Rank of 12% (24,312 of 27,545 speakers). This Bill Clinton is better (less manipulative) than 88.30% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

12% percentile
025507510011.7% percentile
10.2% BS Score8 analyzed videos415.7 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 17.2%17.2%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 31.8%31.8%Hindsight BiasSitewide 1.4%Speaker 17.2%17.2%Pessimism BiasSitewide 1.9%Speaker 16.1%16.1%Unattributed QuoteSitewide 1.1%Speaker 11.8%11.8%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Speaker 10.1%10.1%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 18.9%18.9%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Speaker 1.2%1.2%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 10.7%10.7%False DilemmaSitewide 1.5%Speaker 4.5%4.5%

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%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 31.8%, sitewide 15.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 17.0%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 18.9%, sitewide 11.1%Hindsight Bias: Speaker 17.2%, sitewide 1.4%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 17.2%, sitewide 0.0%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 16.1%, sitewide 1.9%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 11.8%, sitewide 1.1%Optimism Bias: Speaker 10.7%, sitewide 6.0%Indoctrination: Speaker 10.1%, sitewide 0.0%Halo Effect: Speaker 1.2%, sitewide 6.7%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 3.1%, sitewide 5.3%Ad Hominem: Speaker 4.8%, sitewide 2.2%False Dilemma: Speaker 4.5%, sitewide 1.5%Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 3.5%, sitewide 3.7%Status Quo Bias: Speaker 3.2%, sitewide 2.2%Primacy Effect: Speaker 1.2%, sitewide 0.9%Circular Reasoning: Speaker 1.1%, sitewide 0.1%Appeal to EmotionSitewide rateSpeaker rate