Speaker summary
⁠88%1 analyzed article/video44 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Smithsonian Institution's Feather Identification Lab results contain 3 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause) and Representativeness Heuristic, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 44 hits. Analysis detected 132 faulty-reasoning hits from 44 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of ⁠86% (3,783 of 26,870 speakers). This Smithsonian Institution's Feather Identification Lab is worse (more manipulative) than 85.90% of the peer group.
Smithsonian Institution's Feather Identification Lab
Speaker details
Total words: 44
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

86% percentile
025507510085.9% percentile
100.0% BS Score1 analyzed videos44 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%Post Hoc (False Cause)Sitewide 3.3%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 100.0%100.0%

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%Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 3.3%Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 1.9%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos