Speaker summary
⁠55%2 analyzed articles/videos15.5 analyzed words
BS Summary: These SETI Institute results contain 3 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority and Optimism Bias, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 89.3% saturation with 25 hits. Analysis detected 75 faulty-reasoning hits from 15.5 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 89.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠83% (4,797 of 27,791 speakers). This SETI Institute is worse (more manipulative) than 82.70% of the peer group.
SETI Institute
Speaker details
Total words: 15.5
Article count: 2
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

83% percentile
025507510082.7% percentile
89.3% BS Score2 analyzed videos15.5 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–100%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Speaker 89.3%89.3%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 89.3%89.3%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 89.3%89.3%

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%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 89.3%, sitewide 0.8%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 89.3%, sitewide 11.1%Optimism Bias: Speaker 89.3%, sitewide 6.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos