Speaker summary
63%1 analyzed article/video29.5 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Defense officials results contain 3 faulty reasoning types, including Bandwagon and Pessimism Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 19 hits. Analysis detected 57 faulty-reasoning hits from 29.5 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of 97% (1,094 of 28,364 speakers). This Defense officials is worse (more manipulative) than 96.10% of the peer group.
Defense officials
Speaker details
Total words: 29.5
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

96% percentile
025507510096.1% percentile
100.0% BS Score1 analyzed videos29.5 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–125%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%120%Pessimism BiasSitewide 1.9%Speaker 100.0%100.0%BandwagonSitewide 2.2%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 100.0%100.0%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%80%80%100%100%120%120%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 15.9%Bandwagon: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 2.2%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 1.9%Appeal to EmotionSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos