Speaker summary
77%2 analyzed articles/videos98.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Brent Gardner results contain 8 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Emotion, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 61% saturation with 100 hits. Analysis detected 311 faulty-reasoning hits from 98.667 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 32.1% and a BS Rank of 51% (14,157 of 28,364 speakers). This Brent Gardner is worse (more manipulative) than 50.10% of the peer group.
Brent Gardner
Speaker details
Total words: 98.667
Article count: 2
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

50% percentile
025507510050.1% percentile
32.1% BS Score2 analyzed videos98.7 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–100%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 86.0%86.0%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Speaker 61.0%61.0%Politically Right Leaning…Sitewide 1.4%Speaker 19.5%19.5%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Speaker 11.0%11.0%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 15.2%15.2%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 15.2%15.2%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 19.5%19.5%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 29.3%29.3%

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%Optimism Bias: Speaker 86.0%, sitewide 6.0%Anecdotal: Speaker 61.0%, sitewide 5.2%Framing Effect: Speaker 29.3%, sitewide 26.9%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 19.5%, sitewide 15.9%Politically Right Leaning Bias: Speaker 19.5%, sitewide 1.4%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 15.2%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 15.2%, sitewide 8.1%Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 11.0%, sitewide 3.7%Optimism BiasSitewide rateSpeaker rate