Speaker summary
⁠68%3 analyzed articles/videos657 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Joel Kotkin results contain 29 faulty reasoning types, including Slippery Slope, Hasty Generalization, and Politically Right Leaning Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 24.7% saturation with 244 hits. Analysis detected 1,814.621 faulty-reasoning hits from 657 analyzed words across 3 articles, generating a BS Score of 7.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠7% (26,591 of 28,364 speakers). This Joel Kotkin is better (less manipulative) than 93.70% of the peer group.
Joel Kotkin
Speaker details

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

6% percentile
02550751006.3% percentile
7.4% BS Score3 analyzed videos657 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Slippery SlopeSitewide 1.7%Speaker 24.8%24.8%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 8.1%8.1%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 23.3%23.3%Politically Right Leaning…Sitewide 1.4%Speaker 15.0%15.0%Pessimism BiasSitewide 1.9%Speaker 12.9%12.9%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 1.5%1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Speaker 9.1%9.1%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 3.3%3.3%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 24.7%24.7%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Speaker 6.9%6.9%

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 8.1%, sitewide 26.9%Slippery Slope: Speaker 24.8%, sitewide 1.7%Negativity Bias: Speaker 24.7%, sitewide 19.2%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 23.3%, sitewide 8.1%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 13.2%, sitewide 15.9%Politically Right Leaning Bias: Speaker 15.0%, sitewide 1.4%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 12.9%, sitewide 1.9%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 12.6%, sitewide 7.5%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 1.5%, sitewide 11.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 9.1%, sitewide 0.8%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 3.3%, sitewide 9.1%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 8.9%, sitewide 4.6%Begging the Question: Speaker 6.9%, sitewide 1.7%In-Group Bias: Speaker 5.4%, sitewide 6.9%Burden of Proof: Speaker 5.6%, sitewide 0.4%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 4.0%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Speaker 2.6%, sitewide 5.2%Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 4.3%, sitewide 2.7%Anchoring Bias: Speaker 4.0%, sitewide 4.0%False Dilemma: Speaker 4.0%, sitewide 1.5%Straw Man: Speaker 4.0%, sitewide 0.9%Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 2.9%, sitewide 3.3%Blind-Spot Bias: Speaker 2.8%, sitewide 0.2%Primacy Effect: Speaker 2.6%, sitewide 0.9%Framing EffectSitewide rateSpeaker rate

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