Speaker summary
⁠92%1 analyzed article/video92 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Matthew Dowd results contain 4 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Availability Heuristic, and Circular Reasoning, with Post Hoc (False Cause) as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 92 hits. Analysis detected 230 faulty-reasoning hits from 92 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 62.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠77% (6,747 of 28,364 speakers). This Matthew Dowd is worse (more manipulative) than 76.20% of the peer group.
Matthew Dowd
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Speaker details
Total words: 92
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

76% percentile
025507510076.2% percentile
62.5% BS Score1 analyzed videos92 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–125%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%120%Post Hoc (False Cause)Sitewide 3.3%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Circular ReasoningSitewide 0.1%Speaker 50.0%50.0%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 50.0%50.0%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 50.0%50.0%

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%120%120%Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 3.3%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 15.9%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 9.1%Circular Reasoning: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 0.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)Sitewide rateSpeaker rate

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