Speaker summary
25%8 analyzed articles/videos184 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Defense Department results contain 3 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias and Self-Serving Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 14.2% saturation with 48 hits. Analysis detected 86 faulty-reasoning hits from 184 analyzed words across 8 articles, generating a BS Score of 8.5% and a BS Rank of 9% (26,020 of 28,364 speakers). This Defense Department is better (less manipulative) than 91.70% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

8% percentile
02550751008.3% percentile
8.5% BS Score8 analyzed videos184 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–25%
0.0%5%10%15%20%25%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 14.2%14.2%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Speaker 5.6%5.6%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 5.6%5.6%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%5%5%10%10%15%15%20%20%25%25%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 14.2%, sitewide 11.1%Optimism Bias: Speaker 5.6%, sitewide 6.0%Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 5.6%, sitewide 3.7%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate