Speaker summary
⁠52%1 analyzed article/video82.5 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Melissa Downes results contain 4 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Pessimism Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 33.6% saturation with 37 hits. Analysis detected 110 faulty-reasoning hits from 82.5 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 29.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠47% (15,190 of 28,364 speakers). This Melissa Downes is better (less manipulative) than 53.60% of the peer group.
Melissa Downes
Speaker details
Total words: 82.5
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

46% percentile
025507510046.4% percentile
29.1% BS Score1 analyzed videos82.5 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Pessimism BiasSitewide 1.9%Speaker 32.7%32.7%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 33.6%33.6%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 33.6%33.6%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 16.4%16.4%

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 33.6%, sitewide 11.1%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 33.6%, sitewide 7.5%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 32.7%, sitewide 1.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 16.4%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos