Speaker summary
⁠62%1 analyzed article/video29 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Homeland Security spokesperson results contain 3 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion and Negativity Bias, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 29 hits. Analysis detected 87 faulty-reasoning hits from 29 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of ⁠94% (1,822 of 28,364 speakers). This Homeland Security spokesperson is worse (more manipulative) than 93.60% of the peer group.
Homeland Security spokesperson
Speaker details
Total words: 29
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

94% percentile
025507510093.6% percentile
100.0% BS Score1 analyzed videos29 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–125%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%120%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 100.0%100.0%

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%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 0.8%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 15.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 19.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide rateSpeaker rate

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