Speaker summary
61%1 analyzed article/video109.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Sam Smalley results contain 3 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 39.9% saturation with 49.125 hits. Analysis detected 102.25 faulty-reasoning hits from 109.333 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 26% and a BS Rank of 44% (22,131 of 39,518 speakers). This Sam Smalley is better (less manipulative) than 56.00% of the peer group.
Sam Smalley
Speaker ranking list
PercentileSpeakerBS Score
0%The Brookings Institution1%
0%Conor Heffernan1%
0%Gen Jack Keane1%
0%MARGARET BRENNAN1%
0%Shahryar Yadegar1%
44%Sam Smalley (selected)27%
100%314 Action Fund100%
100%21 Grams100%
100%2035 Initiative100%
100%1X representative100%
100%1455 Storytelling Arts100%
Speaker details
Total words: 109.333
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

44% percentile
025507510044.0% percentile
26.0% BS Score1 analyzed videos109.3 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 39.9%39.9%Unattributed QuoteSitewide 1.1%Speaker 22.9%22.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Speaker 15.2%15.2%

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%Optimism Bias: Speaker 39.9%, sitewide 6.0%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 22.9%, sitewide 1.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 15.2%, sitewide 0.8%Optimism BiasSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos