Speaker summary
56%4 analyzed articles/videos138 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Hacker News results contain 4 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Recency Bias, and Blind-Spot Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 20.3% saturation with 28 hits. Analysis detected 92 faulty-reasoning hits from 138 analyzed words across 4 articles, generating a BS Score of 16.7% and a BS Rank of 26% (21,055 of 28,364 speakers). This Hacker News is better (less manipulative) than 74.20% of the peer group.
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Speaker details
Total words: 138
Article count: 4
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

26% percentile
025507510025.8% percentile
16.7% BS Score4 analyzed videos138 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–25%
0.0%5%10%15%20%25%Recency BiasSitewide 2.7%Speaker 16.7%16.7%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 20.3%20.3%Blind-Spot BiasSitewide 0.2%Speaker 9.4%9.4%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 20.3%20.3%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%5%5%10%10%15%15%20%20%25%25%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 20.3%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 20.3%, sitewide 9.1%Recency Bias: Speaker 16.7%, sitewide 2.7%Blind-Spot Bias: Speaker 9.4%, sitewide 0.2%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate