Speaker summary
⁠88%1 analyzed article/video25 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Sam Levinson results contain 3 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service and Biased Writer Voice, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 25 hits. Analysis detected 75 faulty-reasoning hits from 25 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of ⁠87% (3,738 of 28,364 speakers). This Sam Levinson is worse (more manipulative) than 86.80% of the peer group.
Sam Levinson
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%
⁠87%Sam Levinson (selected)100%
⁠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: 25
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

87% percentile
025507510086.8% percentile
100.0% BS Score1 analyzed videos25 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–125%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%120%Attempt to Sell a Product…Sitewide 0.5%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 100.0%100.0%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%80%80%100%100%120%120%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 11.1%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 0.5%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 5.3%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos

Popcast⁠28%
The New York Times⁠0%By Joe Coscarelli⁠0% Jon Caramanica⁠0%7/5/2026, 1:04:01 AM