Speaker summary
⁠63%1 analyzed article/video68 analyzed words
BS Summary: These David Kurtz results contain 3 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias and Quote-first Misdirection, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 50% saturation with 34 hits. Analysis detected 102 faulty-reasoning hits from 68 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 50% and a BS Rank of ⁠70% (8,680 of 28,364 speakers). This David Kurtz is worse (more manipulative) than 69.40% of the peer group.
David Kurtz
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Speaker details
Total words: 68
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

69% percentile
025507510069.4% percentile
50.0% BS Score1 analyzed videos68 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–75%
0.0%20%40%60%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 50.0%50.0%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 50.0%50.0%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 50.0%50.0%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 15.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 19.2%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 0.0%Appeal to EmotionSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos