Speaker summary
⁠48%2 analyzed articles/videos262.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Cedric Leighton results contain 17 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Overconfidence Bias, with Pessimism Bias as the most egregious example at 23.5% saturation with 100 hits. Analysis detected 506.019 faulty-reasoning hits from 262.667 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 7.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠7% (26,369 of 28,364 speakers). This Cedric Leighton is better (less manipulative) than 93.00% of the peer group.
Cedric Leighton
Speaker details
Total words: 262.667
Article count: 2
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

7% percentile
02550751007.0% percentile
7.8% BS Score2 analyzed videos262.7 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Pessimism BiasSitewide 1.9%Speaker 23.5%23.5%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 11.6%11.6%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 4.5%4.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Speaker 8.9%8.9%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 14.0%14.0%Recency BiasSitewide 2.7%Speaker 9.2%9.2%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 5.2%5.2%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Speaker 9.2%9.2%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 13.4%13.4%False DilemmaSitewide 1.5%Speaker 5.4%5.4%

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%Framing Effect: Speaker 11.6%, sitewide 26.9%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 23.5%, sitewide 1.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 4.5%, sitewide 19.2%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 14.0%, sitewide 7.5%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 13.4%, sitewide 9.1%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 5.2%, sitewide 11.1%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 9.2%, sitewide 4.6%Recency Bias: Speaker 9.2%, sitewide 2.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 8.9%, sitewide 0.8%Optimism Bias: Speaker 4.9%, sitewide 6.0%False Dilemma: Speaker 5.4%, sitewide 1.5%Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 5.2%, sitewide 1.9%Actor-Observer Bias: Speaker 4.5%, sitewide 0.6%Anchoring Bias: Speaker 4.5%, sitewide 4.0%Slippery Slope: Speaker 4.5%, sitewide 1.7%Hindsight Bias: Speaker 2.6%, sitewide 1.4%Primacy Effect: Speaker 2.6%, sitewide 0.9%Framing EffectSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos