Speaker summary
⁠66%11 analyzed articles/videos177.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Department of Transportation results contain 10 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Framing Effect, and Confirmation Bias, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 43.2% saturation with 63 hits. Analysis detected 376 faulty-reasoning hits from 177.667 analyzed words across 11 articles, generating a BS Score of 20.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠34% (18,958 of 28,364 speakers). This Department of Transportation is better (less manipulative) than 66.80% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

33% percentile
025507510033.2% percentile
20.6% BS Score11 analyzed videos177.7 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 43.1%43.1%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 37.7%37.7%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Speaker 19.2%19.2%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Speaker 19.2%19.2%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Speaker 19.2%19.2%Representativeness Heuris…Sitewide 1.9%Speaker 12.5%12.5%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 21.1%21.1%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 12.5%12.5%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 10.6%10.6%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 11.3%11.3%

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%Optimism Bias: Speaker 43.1%, sitewide 6.0%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 37.7%, sitewide 15.9%Framing Effect: Speaker 21.1%, sitewide 26.9%Halo Effect: Speaker 19.2%, sitewide 6.7%Indoctrination: Speaker 19.2%, sitewide 0.0%In-Group Bias: Speaker 19.2%, sitewide 6.9%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 12.5%, sitewide 7.5%Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 12.5%, sitewide 1.9%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 11.3%, sitewide 11.1%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 10.6%, sitewide 8.1%Optimism BiasSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos

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Mamdani signs executive order requiring city vehicles be equipped with pedestrian alert, speed limiter devices⁠30%
amny.com⁠43%By Ethan Stark-Miller⁠72%7/24/2026, 8:45:53 PM
Transportation advocates urge Mamdani to release new Vision Zero plan, expand Sammy’s law⁠74%
amny.com⁠43%By Ethan Stark-Miller⁠72%7/23/2026, 9:45:09 PM
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of UC research grants⁠65%
Berkeleyside⁠33%By Mikhail Zinshteyn⁠45% CalMatters⁠33%7/22/2026, 5:56:44 PM
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants⁠53%
AP News⁠53%By MIKHAIL ZINSHTEY/CalMatters⁠78%7/21/2026, 8:11:47 PM
Where Gavin Newsom is tougher on public employees than Greg Abbott⁠40%
CalMatters⁠32%By Lynn La⁠25%7/21/2026, 1:00:00 PM
What it means if daylight saving time becomes permanent⁠49%
Arizona Daily Star⁠73%By Melina Khan USA Today⁠64%7/18/2026, 2:30:00 PM
Duffy Is Right to Focus on Delivering for Americans Instead of DEI⁠48%
www.dailysignal.com⁠82%By Virginia Grace McKinnon⁠39%7/12/2026, 9:25:59 PM
TechCrunch Mobility: A robotaxi ultimatum⁠23%
TechCrunch⁠47%By Kirsten Korosec⁠30% Carrie Andrews⁠28%7/12/2026, 4:07:00 PM
FAA Makes Way For Return Of Supersonic Flight—Minus The Boom⁠33%
Forbes⁠46%By Suzanne Rowan Kelleher⁠0%6/30/2026, 8:22:01 PM
NBA champion Knicks to be honored with NYC streets named for entire team⁠13%
New York Daily News⁠76%By Evan Simko-Bednarski⁠0%6/29/2026, 9:00:35 AM
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