Speaker summary
⁠39%1 analyzed article/video160.5 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Polk County Sheriff’s Office results contain 4 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Overconfidence Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 28.3% saturation with 52 hits. Analysis detected 130 faulty-reasoning hits from 160.5 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 17.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠28% (20,511 of 28,364 speakers). This Polk County Sheriff’s Office is better (less manipulative) than 72.30% of the peer group.
Polk County Sheriff’s Office
Speaker ranking list
Speaker details
Total words: 160.5
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

28% percentile
025507510027.7% percentile
17.7% BS Score1 analyzed videos160.5 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 28.3%28.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Speaker 13.0%13.0%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 19.6%19.6%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Speaker 9.8%9.8%

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 28.3%, sitewide 11.1%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 19.6%, sitewide 7.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 13.0%, sitewide 0.8%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 9.8%, sitewide 4.6%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos