Speaker summary
58%5 analyzed articles/videos250.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These John Curtis results contain 20 faulty reasoning types, including In-Group Bias, Framing Effect, and Politically Right Leaning Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 33.8% saturation with 102.041 hits. Analysis detected 731.154 faulty-reasoning hits from 250.667 analyzed words across 5 articles, generating a BS Score of 10% and a BS Rank of 12% (25,112 of 28,364 speakers). This John Curtis is better (less manipulative) than 88.50% of the peer group.
John Curtis
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

12% percentile
025507510011.5% percentile
10.0% BS Score5 analyzed videos250.7 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 33.8%33.8%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Speaker 24.1%24.1%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 13.5%13.5%Politically Right Leaning…Sitewide 1.4%Speaker 13.5%13.5%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 8.7%8.7%False DilemmaSitewide 1.5%Speaker 10.8%10.8%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Speaker 12.6%12.6%Unattributed QuoteSitewide 1.1%Speaker 8.9%8.9%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Speaker 9.4%9.4%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Speaker 7.5%7.5%

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 33.8%, sitewide 15.9%Framing Effect: Speaker 13.5%, sitewide 26.9%In-Group Bias: Speaker 24.1%, sitewide 6.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 8.7%, sitewide 19.2%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 13.8%, sitewide 8.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias: Speaker 13.5%, sitewide 1.4%Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 12.6%, sitewide 3.7%False Dilemma: Speaker 10.8%, sitewide 1.5%Halo Effect: Speaker 10.1%, sitewide 6.7%Begging the Question: Speaker 9.4%, sitewide 1.7%Bandwagon: Speaker 8.9%, sitewide 2.2%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 8.9%, sitewide 1.1%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 6.0%, sitewide 7.5%Indoctrination: Speaker 7.5%, sitewide 0.0%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 5.1%, sitewide 5.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 4.1%, sitewide 0.8%Appeal to Nature: Speaker 3.6%, sitewide 0.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 3.6%, sitewide 1.9%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 1.2%, sitewide 1.9%Straw Man: Speaker 1.2%, sitewide 0.9%Appeal to EmotionSitewide rateSpeaker rate