Speaker summary
33%3 analyzed articles/videos101 analyzed words
BS Summary: These California Department of Justice results contain 4 faulty reasoning types, including Red Herring, Negativity Bias, and Unattributed Quote, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 44.2% saturation with 69 hits. Analysis detected 144 faulty-reasoning hits from 101 analyzed words across 3 articles, generating a BS Score of 23.1% and a BS Rank of 38% (17,791 of 28,364 speakers). This California Department of Justice is better (less manipulative) than 62.70% of the peer group.
California Department of Justice
Speaker details
Total words: 101
Article count: 3
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

37% percentile
025507510037.3% percentile
23.1% BS Score3 analyzed videos101 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 44.2%44.2%Red HerringSitewide 0.7%Speaker 21.1%21.1%Unattributed QuoteSitewide 1.1%Speaker 13.5%13.5%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 13.5%13.5%

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 Authority: Speaker 44.2%, sitewide 11.1%Red Herring: Speaker 21.1%, sitewide 0.7%Negativity Bias: Speaker 13.5%, sitewide 19.2%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 13.5%, sitewide 1.1%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate