Speaker summary
54%10 analyzed articles/videos609.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Mark Gurman results contain 15 faulty reasoning types, including Anchoring Bias, Unattributed Quote, and Quote-first Misdirection, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 35.4% saturation with 244.647 hits. Analysis detected 814.938 faulty-reasoning hits from 609.667 analyzed words across 10 articles, generating a BS Score of 8.2% and a BS Rank of 8% (25,637 of 27,797 speakers). This Mark Gurman is better (less manipulative) than 92.20% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

8% percentile
02550751007.8% percentile
8.2% BS Score10 analyzed videos609.7 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 35.4%35.4%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 3.7%3.7%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Speaker 20.5%20.5%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 5.1%5.1%Unattributed QuoteSitewide 1.1%Speaker 9.1%9.1%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Speaker 14.2%14.2%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 5.2%5.2%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 4.4%4.4%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 4.5%4.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Speaker 2.7%2.7%

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 Authority: Speaker 35.4%, sitewide 11.1%Framing Effect: Speaker 3.7%, sitewide 26.9%Anchoring Bias: Speaker 20.5%, sitewide 4.0%Negativity Bias: Speaker 5.1%, sitewide 19.2%Halo Effect: Speaker 14.2%, sitewide 6.7%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 9.1%, sitewide 1.1%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 4.4%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 4.5%, sitewide 8.1%Optimism Bias: Speaker 7.0%, sitewide 6.0%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 5.2%, sitewide 0.0%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 4.4%, sitewide 4.6%Recency Bias: Speaker 3.8%, sitewide 2.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 2.7%, sitewide 0.8%Begging the Question: Speaker 1.9%, sitewide 1.7%Hindsight Bias: Speaker 1.9%, sitewide 1.4%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate