Speaker summary
⁠50%1 analyzed article/video37.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Matthew Katz results contain 6 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Appeal to Authority, and Confirmation Bias, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 50% saturation with 28 hits. Analysis detected 109.5 faulty-reasoning hits from 37.333 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 33.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠53% (13,473 of 28,364 speakers). This Matthew Katz is worse (more manipulative) than 52.50% of the peer group.
Matthew Katz
Speaker ranking list
PercentileSpeakerBS Score
⁠0%The Brookings Institution1%
⁠0%Gen Jack Keane1%
⁠0%Shahryar Yadegar1%
⁠0%Mike Muse1%
⁠0%Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Inc.1%
⁠53%Matthew Katz (selected)34%
⁠100%4MATIV100%
⁠100%42nd Avenue and High Street I-880 access improvement project page100%
⁠100%314 Action Fund100%
⁠100%21 Grams100%
⁠100%1X representative100%
Speaker details
Total words: 37.333
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

53% percentile
025507510052.5% percentile
33.9% BS Score1 analyzed videos37.3 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–75%
0.0%20%40%60%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 50.0%50.0%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 32.1%32.1%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 42.9%42.9%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 28.6%28.6%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 28.6%28.6%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Speaker 21.4%21.4%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%Optimism Bias: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 6.0%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 42.9%, sitewide 15.9%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 32.1%, sitewide 0.0%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 28.6%, sitewide 11.1%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 28.6%, sitewide 7.5%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 21.4%, sitewide 5.3%Optimism BiasSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos