Speaker summary
⁠66%3 analyzed articles/videos393 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Paul Dergarabedian results contain 22 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Bandwagon, and Appeal to Emotion, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 23.1% saturation with 162 hits. Analysis detected 1,171.125 faulty-reasoning hits from 393 analyzed words across 3 articles, generating a BS Score of 8.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠10% (25,752 of 28,364 speakers). This Paul Dergarabedian is better (less manipulative) than 90.80% of the peer group.
Paul Dergarabedian
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%
⁠10%Paul Dergarabedian (selected)9%
⁠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: 393
Article count: 3
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

9% percentile
02550751009.2% percentile
8.9% BS Score3 analyzed videos393 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Speaker 25.8%25.8%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 4.0%4.0%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 12.8%12.8%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 23.1%23.1%Pessimism BiasSitewide 1.9%Speaker 11.5%11.5%BandwagonSitewide 2.2%Speaker 11.5%11.5%False DilemmaSitewide 1.5%Speaker 10.7%10.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Speaker 8.8%8.8%Appeal to NatureSitewide 0.2%Speaker 7.7%7.7%Straw ManSitewide 0.9%Speaker 8.0%8.0%

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 12.8%, sitewide 26.9%Halo Effect: Speaker 25.8%, sitewide 6.7%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 23.1%, sitewide 11.1%Negativity Bias: Speaker 4.0%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 9.4%, sitewide 15.9%Bandwagon: Speaker 11.5%, sitewide 2.2%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 11.5%, sitewide 1.9%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 10.9%, sitewide 8.1%False Dilemma: Speaker 10.7%, sitewide 1.5%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 2.7%, sitewide 9.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 8.8%, sitewide 0.8%Anecdotal: Speaker 8.8%, sitewide 5.2%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 8.2%, sitewide 7.5%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 8.1%, sitewide 4.6%Straw Man: Speaker 8.0%, sitewide 0.9%Appeal to Nature: Speaker 7.7%, sitewide 0.2%In-Group Bias: Speaker 4.8%, sitewide 6.9%Optimism Bias: Speaker 5.7%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 3.9%, sitewide 5.3%Burden of Proof: Speaker 3.9%, sitewide 0.4%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 3.9%, sitewide 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 2.6%, sitewide 1.9%Framing EffectSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos