Speaker summary
46%7 analyzed articles/videos123.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These National Conference of State Legislatures results contain 3 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic and Bandwagon, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 47.3% saturation with 78.216 hits. Analysis detected 133.249 faulty-reasoning hits from 123.667 analyzed words across 7 articles, generating a BS Score of 26.8% and a BS Rank of 44% (16,070 of 28,364 speakers). This National Conference of State Legislatures is better (less manipulative) than 56.70% of the peer group.
National Conference of State Legislatures

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

43% percentile
025507510043.3% percentile
26.8% BS Score7 analyzed videos123.7 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 47.3%47.3%BandwagonSitewide 2.2%Speaker 13.9%13.9%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 19.3%19.3%

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%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 47.3%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 19.3%, sitewide 9.1%Bandwagon: Speaker 13.9%, sitewide 2.2%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate