Speaker summary
⁠53%2 analyzed articles/videos133 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Richard Dawkins results contain 5 faulty reasoning types, including Quote-first Misdirection, Halo Effect, and Recency Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 62.7% saturation with 87.184 hits. Analysis detected 297.901 faulty-reasoning hits from 133 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 43% and a BS Rank of ⁠61% (11,227 of 28,364 speakers). This Richard Dawkins is worse (more manipulative) than 60.40% of the peer group.
Richard Dawkins
Speaker details
Total words: 133
Article count: 2
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

60% percentile
025507510060.4% percentile
43.0% BS Score2 analyzed videos133 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–75%
0.0%20%40%60%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 62.7%62.7%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 50.2%50.2%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Speaker 51.6%51.6%Unattributed QuoteSitewide 1.1%Speaker 25.1%25.1%Recency BiasSitewide 2.7%Speaker 25.1%25.1%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 62.7%, sitewide 11.1%Halo Effect: Speaker 51.6%, sitewide 6.7%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 50.2%, sitewide 0.0%Recency Bias: Speaker 25.1%, sitewide 2.7%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 25.1%, sitewide 1.1%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos