Speaker summary
⁠78%2 analyzed articles/videos201.5 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Colin Hortman results contain 6 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Anecdotal, and Hasty Generalization, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 42.6% saturation with 85.911 hits. Analysis detected 243.706 faulty-reasoning hits from 201.5 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 20% and a BS Rank of ⁠32% (19,291 of 28,364 speakers). This Colin Hortman is better (less manipulative) than 68.00% of the peer group.
Colin Hortman
Speaker details

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

32% percentile
025507510032.0% percentile
20.0% BS Score2 analyzed videos201.5 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 42.1%42.1%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 42.6%42.6%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 16.7%16.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Speaker 5.7%5.7%Pessimism BiasSitewide 1.9%Speaker 5.7%5.7%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Speaker 7.3%7.3%

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%Negativity Bias: Speaker 42.6%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 42.1%, sitewide 15.9%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 16.7%, sitewide 8.1%Anecdotal: Speaker 7.3%, sitewide 5.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 5.7%, sitewide 0.8%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 5.7%, sitewide 1.9%Negativity BiasSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos