Speaker summary
36%25 analyzed articles/videos1,746.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These John Adams results contain 24 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Quote-first Misdirection, and Negativity Bias, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 10.6% saturation with 216.595 hits. Analysis detected 1,762.181 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,746.333 analyzed words across 25 articles, generating a BS Score of 3.1% and a BS Rank of 1% (28,155 of 28,364 speakers). This John Adams is better (less manipulative) than 99.30% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

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3.1% BS Score25 analyzed videos1.7K 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 1.9%1.9%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 5.7%5.7%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 5.4%5.4%Unattributed QuoteSitewide 1.1%Speaker 10.6%10.6%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 1.2%1.2%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 6.2%6.2%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Speaker 0.9%0.9%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Speaker 1.2%1.2%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Speaker 0.6%0.6%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Speaker 4.6%4.6%

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 1.9%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 5.7%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 5.4%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 9.2%, sitewide 11.1%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 10.6%, sitewide 1.1%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 1.2%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 5.0%, sitewide 8.1%In-Group Bias: Speaker 0.9%, sitewide 6.9%Halo Effect: Speaker 1.2%, sitewide 6.7%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 6.2%, sitewide 0.0%Optimism Bias: Speaker 3.9%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 2.4%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Speaker 0.6%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 2.3%, sitewide 4.6%Indoctrination: Speaker 4.6%, sitewide 0.0%Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 0.7%, sitewide 3.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 3.4%, sitewide 0.8%Primacy Effect: Speaker 3.3%, sitewide 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 1.3%, sitewide 2.7%Ad Hominem: Speaker 1.3%, sitewide 2.2%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 0.6%, sitewide 1.9%Hindsight Bias: Speaker 0.7%, sitewide 1.4%Actor-Observer Bias: Speaker 1.1%, sitewide 0.6%Burden of Proof: Speaker 1.0%, sitewide 0.4%Framing EffectSitewide rateSpeaker rate