Speaker summary
27%7 analyzed articles/videos1,413 analyzed words
BS Summary: These John Patterson results contain 14 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Appeal to Authority, and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 4.1% saturation with 79 hits. Analysis detected 415.137 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,413 analyzed words across 7 articles, generating a BS Score of 1.6% and a BS Rank of 1% (28,340 of 28,364 speakers). This John Patterson is better (less manipulative) than 99.90% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

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1.6% BS Score7 analyzed videos1.4K 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 4.7%4.7%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 1.9%1.9%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 4.2%4.2%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 1.0%1.0%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 3.2%3.2%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 0.4%0.4%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 1.2%1.2%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Speaker 1.5%1.5%Fundamental Attribution E…Sitewide 2.7%Speaker 0.4%0.4%Status Quo BiasSitewide 2.2%Speaker 1.4%1.4%

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 4.7%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 1.9%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 4.2%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 3.2%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 1.0%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 0.4%, sitewide 8.1%Optimism Bias: Speaker 1.2%, sitewide 6.0%Anchoring Bias: Speaker 1.5%, sitewide 4.0%Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 0.4%, sitewide 2.7%Status Quo Bias: Speaker 1.4%, sitewide 2.2%Hindsight Bias: Speaker 0.9%, sitewide 1.4%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 0.7%, sitewide 1.1%Burden of Proof: Speaker 1.0%, sitewide 0.4%Blind-Spot Bias: Speaker 0.6%, sitewide 0.2%Framing EffectSitewide rateSpeaker rate