Speaker summary
⁠82%5 analyzed articles/videos455.5 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Sam Singer results contain 20 faulty reasoning types, including Indoctrination, Pessimism Bias, and Halo Effect, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 52.7% saturation with 239.988 hits. Analysis detected 1,146.894 faulty-reasoning hits from 455.5 analyzed words across 5 articles, generating a BS Score of 10.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠12% (24,217 of 27,498 speakers). This Sam Singer is better (less manipulative) than 88.10% of the peer group.
Sam Singer
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Speaker details
Total words: 455.5
Article count: 5
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

12% percentile
025507510011.9% percentile
10.3% BS Score5 analyzed videos455.5 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–75%
0.0%20%40%60%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 52.7%52.7%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Speaker 23.0%23.0%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 12.7%12.7%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 5.5%5.5%Pessimism BiasSitewide 1.9%Speaker 13.2%13.2%Burden of ProofSitewide 0.4%Speaker 11.3%11.3%Special PleadingSitewide 0.3%Speaker 11.0%11.0%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Speaker 9.6%9.6%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 3.8%3.8%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Speaker 9.8%9.8%

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 Emotion: Speaker 52.7%, sitewide 15.9%Framing Effect: Speaker 12.7%, sitewide 26.9%Indoctrination: Speaker 23.0%, sitewide 0.0%Negativity Bias: Speaker 5.5%, sitewide 19.2%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 13.2%, sitewide 1.9%Halo Effect: Speaker 12.2%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Speaker 11.4%, sitewide 6.0%Burden of Proof: Speaker 11.3%, sitewide 0.4%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 3.8%, sitewide 11.1%Special Pleading: Speaker 11.0%, sitewide 0.3%Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 9.8%, sitewide 3.7%Begging the Question: Speaker 9.6%, sitewide 1.7%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 8.4%, sitewide 7.5%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 5.9%, sitewide 0.0%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 1.3%, sitewide 5.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 4.0%, sitewide 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 3.5%, sitewide 2.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 2.6%, sitewide 3.3%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 2.3%, sitewide 1.1%Blind-Spot Bias: Speaker 1.7%, sitewide 0.2%Appeal to EmotionSitewide rateSpeaker rate

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