Speaker summary
⁠50%3 analyzed articles/videos46 analyzed words
BS Summary: These LA Times results contain 4 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Availability Heuristic, and Primacy Effect, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 77% saturation with 47 hits. Analysis detected 127 faulty-reasoning hits from 46 analyzed words across 3 articles and videos, generating a BS Score of 52% and a BS Rank of ⁠72% (8,017 of 28,364 speakers). This LA Times is worse (more manipulative) than 71.70% of the peer group.
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Speaker ranking list
Speaker details
Total words: 46
Content count: 3
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

72% percentile
025507510071.7% percentile
52.0% BS Score3 analyzed videos46 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–100%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 77.0%77.0%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Speaker 54.1%54.1%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 54.1%54.1%Primacy EffectSitewide 0.9%Speaker 22.9%22.9%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%80%80%100%100%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 77.0%, sitewide 11.1%Anecdotal: Speaker 54.1%, sitewide 5.2%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 54.1%, sitewide 9.1%Primacy Effect: Speaker 22.9%, sitewide 0.9%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos