Speaker summary
29%4 analyzed articles/videos37 analyzed words
BS Summary: These FDNY officials results contain 3 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic and Halo Effect, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 39.3% saturation with 35 hits. Analysis detected 78 faulty-reasoning hits from 37 analyzed words across 4 articles, generating a BS Score of 29.2% and a BS Rank of 47% (14,107 of 26,155 speakers). This FDNY officials is better (less manipulative) than 53.90% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

46% percentile
025507510046.1% percentile
29.2% BS Score4 analyzed videos37 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 39.3%39.3%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 39.3%39.3%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Speaker 9.0%9.0%

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%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 39.3%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 39.3%, sitewide 9.1%Halo Effect: Speaker 9.0%, sitewide 6.7%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate