Speaker summary
40% 21 analyzed articles/videos 2,390 analyzed words
BS Summary: These David Becker results contain 34 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias , Appeal to Emotion , and Availability Heuristic , with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 10.1% saturation with 341.022 hits . Analysis detected 3,296.97 faulty-reasoning hits from 2,390 analyzed words across 21 articles, generating a BS Score of 2.5% and a BS Rank of 1% (26,636 of 26,730 speakers). This David Becker is better (less manipulative) than 99.60% of the peer group. David Becker
Speaker details
Total words: 2,390
Article count: 21
Authors
Ranking context Position among analyzed speakers
0% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 0.4% percentile 2.5% BS Score21 analyzed videos2.4K analyzed words
Reasoning profile Selected profile versus the sitewide rate
Highest rates Largest gaps
Shared scale 0–50%
0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Speaker 0.6% 0.6% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Speaker 9.1% 9.1% Appeal to Emotion Sitewide 15.9% Speaker 6.2% 6.2% Confirmation Bias Sitewide 7.5% Speaker 2.0% 2.0% Halo Effect Sitewide 6.7% Speaker 1.7% 1.7% Availability Heuristic Sitewide 9.1% Speaker 4.4% 4.4% Anecdotal Sitewide 5.2% Speaker 1.4% 1.4% Hasty Generalization Sitewide 8.1% Speaker 4.6% 4.6% Biased Writer Voice Sitewide 5.3% Speaker 2.0% 2.0% Quote-first Misdirection Sitewide 0.0% Speaker 3.1% 3.1% 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% Framing Effect: Speaker 0.6%, sitewide 26.9% Negativity Bias: Speaker 9.1%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 6.2%, sitewide 15.9% Appeal to Authority: Speaker 10.1%, sitewide 11.1% Availability Heuristic: Speaker 4.4%, sitewide 9.1% Hasty Generalization: Speaker 4.6%, sitewide 8.1% Confirmation Bias: Speaker 2.0%, sitewide 7.5% Halo Effect: Speaker 1.7%, sitewide 6.7% Optimism Bias: Speaker 4.9%, sitewide 6.0% Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 5.7%, sitewide 4.6% Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 2.0%, sitewide 5.3% Anecdotal: Speaker 1.4%, sitewide 5.2% Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 1.1%, sitewide 3.7% Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 2.7%, sitewide 3.3% Pessimism Bias: Speaker 3.2%, sitewide 1.9% Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Speaker 0.4%, sitewide 3.1% Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 3.1%, sitewide 0.0% Status Quo Bias: Speaker 2.9%, sitewide 2.2% Unattributed Quote: Speaker 2.8%, sitewide 1.1% Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 1.9%, sitewide 2.7% Ad Hominem: Speaker 0.8%, sitewide 2.2% Begging the Question: Speaker 1.9%, sitewide 1.7% Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 0.8%, sitewide 1.9% Slippery Slope: Speaker 0.9%, sitewide 1.7% Framing Effect Sitewide rate Speaker rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst