Speaker summary
⁠96%2 analyzed articles/videos55 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Duke University results contain 2 faulty reasoning types, including Overconfidence Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 55 hits. Analysis detected 79 faulty-reasoning hits from 55 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 71.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠80% (5,753 of 28,364 speakers). This Duke University is worse (more manipulative) than 79.70% of the peer group.
Duke University

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

80% percentile
025507510079.7% percentile
71.8% BS Score2 analyzed videos55 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–125%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%120%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Speaker 43.6%43.6%

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 Authority: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 11.1%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 43.6%, sitewide 4.6%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos