Speaker summary
⁠88%1 analyzed article/video50 analyzed words
BS Summary: These San Diego Police Department (SDPD) results contain 5 faulty reasoning types, including Anchoring Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Primacy Effect, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 50 hits. Analysis detected 162 faulty-reasoning hits from 50 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 64.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠77% (6,078 of 26,053 speakers). This San Diego Police Department (SDPD) is worse (more manipulative) than 76.70% of the peer group.
San Diego Police Department (SDPD)

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

77% percentile
025507510076.7% percentile
64.8% BS Score1 analyzed videos50 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–125%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%120%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 56.0%56.0%Primacy EffectSitewide 0.9%Speaker 56.0%56.0%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Speaker 56.0%56.0%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 56.0%56.0%

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%Anchoring Bias: Speaker 56.0%, sitewide 4.0%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 56.0%, sitewide 7.5%Primacy Effect: Speaker 56.0%, sitewide 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 56.0%, sitewide 0.0%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos