Speaker summary
36% 36 analyzed articles/videos 4,614.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Mitch McConnell results contain 31 faulty reasoning types, including Self-Serving Bias , Unattributed Quote , and Representativeness Heuristic , with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 11.6% saturation with 616.269 hits . Analysis detected 3,512.42 faulty-reasoning hits from 4,614.667 analyzed words across 36 articles, generating a BS Score of 1.9% and a BS Rank of 1% (25,727 of 25,757 speakers). This Mitch McConnell is better (less manipulative) than 99.90% of the peer group. Mitch McConnell
Speaker details
Total words: 4,614.667
Article count: 36
Authors
Ranking context Position among analyzed speakers
0% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 0.1% percentile 1.9% BS Score36 analyzed videos4.6K analyzed words
Reasoning profile Selected profile versus the sitewide rate
Highest rates Largest gaps
Shared scale 0–50%
0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Speaker 2.7% 2.7% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Speaker 0.3% 0.3% Appeal to Emotion Sitewide 15.9% Speaker 2.7% 2.7% Appeal to Authority Sitewide 11.1% Speaker 2.7% 2.7% Availability Heuristic Sitewide 9.1% Speaker 0.8% 0.8% Halo Effect Sitewide 6.7% Speaker 0.6% 0.6% Confirmation Bias Sitewide 7.5% Speaker 1.9% 1.9% In-Group Bias Sitewide 6.9% Speaker 1.2% 1.2% Optimism Bias Sitewide 6.0% Speaker 11.6% 11.6% Anecdotal Sitewide 5.2% Speaker 0.3% 0.3% 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% Framing Effect: Speaker 2.7%, sitewide 26.9% Negativity Bias: Speaker 0.3%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 2.7%, sitewide 15.9% Optimism Bias: Speaker 11.6%, sitewide 6.0% Appeal to Authority: Speaker 2.7%, sitewide 11.1% Availability Heuristic: Speaker 0.8%, sitewide 9.1% Hasty Generalization: Speaker 5.1%, sitewide 8.1% Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 7.8%, sitewide 3.7% Confirmation Bias: Speaker 1.9%, sitewide 7.5% In-Group Bias: Speaker 1.2%, sitewide 6.9% Halo Effect: Speaker 0.6%, sitewide 6.7% Unattributed Quote: Speaker 5.7%, sitewide 1.1% Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 1.6%, sitewide 5.3% Anecdotal: Speaker 0.3%, sitewide 5.2% Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 0.4%, sitewide 4.6% Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 4.2%, sitewide 1.9% Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 1.1%, sitewide 3.3% Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 0.9%, sitewide 2.7% Recency Bias: Speaker 0.6%, sitewide 2.7% Loss Aversion: Speaker 0.3%, sitewide 2.5% Bandwagon: Speaker 0.8%, sitewide 2.2% Status Quo Bias: Speaker 0.4%, sitewide 2.2% Pessimism Bias: Speaker 0.4%, sitewide 1.9% Begging the Question: Speaker 0.5%, sitewide 1.7% Framing Effect Sitewide rate Speaker rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst