Speaker summary
⁠65%1 analyzed article/video105 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Shawn Donahue results contain 6 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Anchoring Bias, and Slippery Slope, with Representativeness Heuristic as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 105 hits. Analysis detected 315 faulty-reasoning hits from 105 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 50% and a BS Rank of ⁠71% (8,263 of 28,364 speakers). This Shawn Donahue is worse (more manipulative) than 70.90% of the peer group.
Shawn Donahue
Speaker details
Total words: 105
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

71% percentile
025507510070.9% percentile
50.0% BS Score1 analyzed videos105 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–125%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%120%Representativeness Heuris…Sitewide 1.9%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Speaker 53.3%53.3%Slippery SlopeSitewide 1.7%Speaker 46.7%46.7%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Speaker 46.7%46.7%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 43.8%43.8%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 9.5%9.5%

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%Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 1.9%Halo Effect: Speaker 53.3%, sitewide 6.7%Anchoring Bias: Speaker 46.7%, sitewide 4.0%Slippery Slope: Speaker 46.7%, sitewide 1.7%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 43.8%, sitewide 11.1%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 9.5%, sitewide 8.1%Representativeness HeuristicSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos