Speaker summary
54%22 analyzed articles/videos499.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Congressional Budget Office results contain 13 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Anchoring Bias, and Unattributed Quote, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 28.2% saturation with 140.822 hits. Analysis detected 618.589 faulty-reasoning hits from 499.333 analyzed words across 22 articles, generating a BS Score of 8.8% and a BS Rank of 9% (25,826 of 28,364 speakers). This Congressional Budget Office is better (less manipulative) than 91.10% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

9% percentile
02550751008.9% percentile
8.8% BS Score22 analyzed videos499.3 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 6.9%6.9%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 28.2%28.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Speaker 12.0%12.0%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Speaker 13.8%13.8%Unattributed QuoteSitewide 1.1%Speaker 7.9%7.9%Middle GroundSitewide 0.1%Speaker 4.2%4.2%Burden of ProofSitewide 0.4%Speaker 3.9%3.9%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Speaker 6.9%6.9%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 9.6%9.6%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 7.1%7.1%

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 28.2%, sitewide 11.1%Framing Effect: Speaker 6.9%, sitewide 26.9%Anchoring Bias: Speaker 13.8%, sitewide 4.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 12.0%, sitewide 0.8%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 9.6%, sitewide 7.5%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 7.1%, sitewide 9.1%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 7.9%, sitewide 1.1%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 6.9%, sitewide 4.6%Optimism Bias: Speaker 6.6%, sitewide 6.0%Middle Ground: Speaker 4.2%, sitewide 0.1%Burden of Proof: Speaker 3.9%, sitewide 0.4%Recency Bias: Speaker 3.9%, sitewide 2.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 3.7%, sitewide 3.3%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate