Speaker summary
65%7 analyzed articles/videos4,807.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Greg Sargent results contain 44 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 14.7% saturation with 942.999 hits. Analysis detected 7,682.113 faulty-reasoning hits from 4,807.333 analyzed words across 7 articles, generating a BS Score of 2.9% and a BS Rank of 1% (28,192 of 28,364 speakers). This Greg Sargent is better (less manipulative) than 99.40% of the peer group.
Greg Sargent
Speaker details
Total words: 4,807.333
Article count: 7
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

1% percentile
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2.9% BS Score7 analyzed videos4.8K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 9.1%9.1%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 8.0%8.0%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Speaker 13.2%13.2%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Speaker 0.3%0.3%Politically Left Leaning …Sitewide 2.0%Speaker 8.3%8.3%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 13.8%13.8%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Speaker 0.8%0.8%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 5.3%5.3%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 1.0%1.0%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 14.8%14.8%

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%Framing Effect: Speaker 9.1%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 14.8%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 8.0%, sitewide 15.9%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 13.8%, sitewide 7.5%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 13.2%, sitewide 5.3%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 5.3%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 4.6%, sitewide 9.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias: Speaker 8.3%, sitewide 2.0%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 7.4%, sitewide 8.1%In-Group Bias: Speaker 0.3%, sitewide 6.9%Halo Effect: Speaker 0.8%, sitewide 6.7%Ad Hominem: Speaker 6.5%, sitewide 2.2%Optimism Bias: Speaker 1.0%, sitewide 6.0%Anecdotal: Speaker 1.3%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 1.0%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Speaker 0.6%, sitewide 4.0%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 3.6%, sitewide 1.9%Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 1.4%, sitewide 3.3%Begging the Question: Speaker 3.1%, sitewide 1.7%Indoctrination: Speaker 2.8%, sitewide 0.0%Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 2.1%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Speaker 0.8%, sitewide 2.7%Slippery Slope: Speaker 2.6%, sitewide 1.7%Loss Aversion: Speaker 0.3%, sitewide 2.5%Framing EffectSitewide rateSpeaker rate