Speaker summary
⁠41%5 analyzed articles/videos276 analyzed words
BS Summary: These James Clyburn results contain 17 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Self-Serving Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 26.4% saturation with 134 hits. Analysis detected 657.58 faulty-reasoning hits from 276 analyzed words across 5 articles, generating a BS Score of 7.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠8% (26,323 of 28,364 speakers). This James Clyburn is better (less manipulative) than 92.80% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

7% percentile
02550751007.2% percentile
7.9% BS Score5 analyzed videos276 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 26.4%26.4%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Speaker 12.9%12.9%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 15.0%15.0%Composition/DivisionSitewide 0.2%Speaker 7.3%7.3%Representativeness Heuris…Sitewide 1.9%Speaker 7.3%7.3%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Speaker 9.3%9.3%Recency BiasSitewide 2.7%Speaker 6.9%6.9%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 6.9%6.9%Appeal to NatureSitewide 0.2%Speaker 4.1%4.1%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 5.5%5.5%

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 Emotion: Speaker 26.4%, sitewide 15.9%Optimism Bias: Speaker 15.0%, sitewide 6.0%Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 12.9%, sitewide 3.7%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 6.9%, sitewide 11.1%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 10.6%, sitewide 7.5%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 9.3%, sitewide 4.6%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 5.5%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 7.0%, sitewide 8.1%Composition/Division: Speaker 7.3%, sitewide 0.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 7.3%, sitewide 1.9%Recency Bias: Speaker 6.9%, sitewide 2.7%Halo Effect: Speaker 4.1%, sitewide 6.7%Appeal to Nature: Speaker 4.1%, sitewide 0.2%False Dilemma: Speaker 4.1%, sitewide 1.5%Begging the Question: Speaker 3.7%, sitewide 1.7%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Speaker 2.0%, sitewide 3.1%Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 1.6%, sitewide 2.7%Appeal to EmotionSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos