Speaker summary
66% 20 analyzed articles/videos 450.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Financial Times results contain 24 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic , Negativity Bias , and Ambiguity (Equivocation) , with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 22.4% saturation with 240 hits . Analysis detected 1,921.562 faulty-reasoning hits from 450.667 analyzed words across 20 articles, generating a BS Score of 8.6% and a BS Rank of 9% (25,950 of 28,364 speakers). This Financial Times is better (less manipulative) than 91.50% of the peer group. Financial Times
Speaker details
Total words: 450.667
Article count: 20
Authors
Ranking context Position among analyzed speakers
9% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 8.5% percentile 8.6% BS Score20 analyzed videos450.7 analyzed words
Reasoning profile Selected profile versus the sitewide rate
Highest rates Largest gaps
Shared scale 0–50%
0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Speaker 5.4% 5.4% Availability Heuristic Sitewide 9.1% Speaker 27.3% 27.3% Ambiguity (Equivocation) Sitewide 0.8% Speaker 14.1% 14.1% Unattributed Quote Sitewide 1.1% Speaker 13.4% 13.4% Appeal to Authority Sitewide 11.1% Speaker 22.4% 22.4% Post Hoc (False Cause) Sitewide 3.3% Speaker 12.2% 12.2% Slippery Slope Sitewide 1.7% Speaker 9.1% 9.1% Anecdotal Sitewide 5.2% Speaker 11.9% 11.9% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Speaker 24.9% 24.9% Pessimism Bias Sitewide 1.9% Speaker 7.3% 7.3% 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% Availability Heuristic: Speaker 27.3%, sitewide 9.1% Framing Effect: Speaker 5.4%, sitewide 26.9% Negativity Bias: Speaker 24.9%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Authority: Speaker 22.4%, sitewide 11.1% Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 14.1%, sitewide 0.8% Unattributed Quote: Speaker 13.4%, sitewide 1.1% Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 12.2%, sitewide 3.3% Anecdotal: Speaker 11.9%, sitewide 5.2% Hasty Generalization: Speaker 10.5%, sitewide 8.1% Slippery Slope: Speaker 9.1%, sitewide 1.7% Confirmation Bias: Speaker 5.8%, sitewide 7.5% Pessimism Bias: Speaker 7.3%, sitewide 1.9% Recency Bias: Speaker 6.5%, sitewide 2.7% Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 3.3%, sitewide 5.3% Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 3.9%, sitewide 4.6% Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 4.3%, sitewide 1.9% Anchoring Bias: Speaker 3.9%, sitewide 4.0% Burden of Proof: Speaker 3.9%, sitewide 0.4% False Dilemma: Speaker 3.9%, sitewide 1.5% Primacy Effect: Speaker 3.7%, sitewide 0.9% Red Herring: Speaker 2.9%, sitewide 0.7% Ad Hominem: Speaker 2.8%, sitewide 2.2% Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 2.2%, sitewide 0.0% Indoctrination: Speaker 0.8%, sitewide 0.0% Availability Heuristic Sitewide rate Speaker rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst