Speaker summary
42%23 analyzed articles/videos963.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These John Whitmire results contain 26 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Framing Effect, and Self-Serving Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 14.7% saturation with 181.479 hits. Analysis detected 1,324.821 faulty-reasoning hits from 963.333 analyzed words across 23 articles, generating a BS Score of 3.3% and a BS Rank of 1% (28,118 of 28,364 speakers). This John Whitmire is better (less manipulative) than 99.10% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

1% percentile
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3.3% BS Score23 analyzed videos963.3 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 12.1%12.1%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 8.8%8.8%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 0.7%0.7%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 2.2%2.2%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 2.8%2.8%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 1.3%1.3%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 6.5%6.5%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Speaker 0.9%0.9%False DilemmaSitewide 1.5%Speaker 4.3%4.3%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Speaker 2.1%2.1%

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 12.1%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 8.8%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 14.7%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 6.5%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 0.7%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 2.8%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 2.2%, sitewide 7.5%Halo Effect: Speaker 5.2%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Speaker 1.3%, sitewide 6.0%Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 5.5%, sitewide 3.7%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 0.9%, sitewide 5.3%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 2.1%, sitewide 4.6%False Dilemma: Speaker 4.3%, sitewide 1.5%Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 1.3%, sitewide 3.3%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 3.0%, sitewide 1.9%Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 1.1%, sitewide 2.7%Loss Aversion: Speaker 1.3%, sitewide 2.5%Status Quo Bias: Speaker 2.1%, sitewide 2.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 2.1%, sitewide 0.8%Actor-Observer Bias: Speaker 1.9%, sitewide 0.6%Begging the Question: Speaker 1.6%, sitewide 1.7%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 1.2%, sitewide 1.1%Primacy Effect: Speaker 1.2%, sitewide 0.9%Indoctrination: Speaker 0.8%, sitewide 0.0%Framing EffectSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos

Some Houston businesses close in boycott after fatal ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado23%
Houston Chronicle16%By Ashley Soebroto10%7/24/2026, 10:46:17 AM
Houston and Southeast Texas region face dangerously high heat17%
Houston Public Media12%By Sonia Kinyua14%7/21/2026, 11:51:07 AM
Family says Houston ICE shooting substance was salt17%
WXII3%By Jason Hanna28% Lauren Mascarenhas28% Norma Galeana28% Ed Lavandera28% CNN29%7/20/2026, 7:21:00 PM
As Trump scraps with Meloni, his envoy to Italy is at sea51%
Las Vegas Sun90%By Motoko Rich0% New York Times Company0%7/19/2026, 7:00:00 PM
Say it loud at protests: Houstonians want ICE to stop killing people | Editorial90%
Houston Chronicle16%By The Editorial Board97%7/17/2026, 3:00:00 AM
FBI searches van involved in ICE shooting for drugs, affidavit says4%
Houston Public Media12%By Michael Adkison20% Bianca Seward19%7/15/2026, 3:11:16 PM
Trump says ICE traffic stops should continue despite new policy to halt them47%
Houston Chronicle16%By Catherine Dominguez21%7/15/2026, 5:59:12 AM
Harris County DA seeks U Visas for 3 witnesses in Houston fatal ICE shooting20%
Houston Chronicle16%By Sondra Hernandez6%7/15/2026, 5:15:16 AM
‘They’re killing me’: Lawyer for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s brother shares his account of fatal shooting by ICE9%
Houston Public Media12%By Bianca Seward19%7/15/2026, 3:00:43 AM
Houston investigators didn’t quickly respond to fatal ICE shooting. Why that could hinder their probe39%
Houston Chronicle16%By Matt deGrood48%7/14/2026, 5:04:02 PM