Speaker summary
⁠26%1 analyzed article/video96.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Mark Kotsay results contain 5 faulty reasoning types, including Special Pleading, Anecdotal, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 12.3% saturation with 17 hits. Analysis detected 55 faulty-reasoning hits from 96.667 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 8% and a BS Rank of ⁠8% (26,295 of 28,364 speakers). This Mark Kotsay is better (less manipulative) than 92.70% of the peer group.
Mark Kotsay
Speaker details
Total words: 96.667
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

7% percentile
02550751007.3% percentile
8.0% BS Score1 analyzed videos96.7 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–25%
0.0%5%10%15%20%25%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 5.1%5.1%Special PleadingSitewide 0.3%Speaker 10.1%10.1%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 12.3%12.3%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Speaker 5.1%5.1%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Speaker 7.3%7.3%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%5%5%10%10%15%15%20%20%25%25%Negativity Bias: Speaker 12.3%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 5.1%, sitewide 15.9%Special Pleading: Speaker 10.1%, sitewide 0.3%Anecdotal: Speaker 7.3%, sitewide 5.2%Begging the Question: Speaker 5.1%, sitewide 1.7%Negativity BiasSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos