Speaker summary
26% 27 analyzed articles/videos 546.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Snopes results contain 18 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic , Appeal to Authority , and Red Herring , with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 10.3% saturation with 123 hits . Analysis detected 835 faulty-reasoning hits from 546.333 analyzed words across 27 articles, generating a BS Score of 3.9% and a BS Rank of 2% (25,598 of 25,928 speakers). This Snopes is better (less manipulative) than 98.70% of the peer group. Snopes
Speaker details
Total words: 546.333
Article count: 27
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Ranking context Position among analyzed speakers
1% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 1.3% percentile 3.9% BS Score27 analyzed videos546.3 analyzed words
Reasoning profile Selected profile versus the sitewide rate
Highest rates Largest gaps
Shared scale 0–25%
0.0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Speaker 5.2% 5.2% Red Herring Sitewide 0.7% Speaker 7.1% 7.1% Burden of Proof Sitewide 0.4% Speaker 6.4% 6.4% Hasty Generalization Sitewide 8.1% Speaker 2.5% 2.5% Anecdotal Sitewide 5.2% Speaker 1.0% 1.0% Overconfidence Bias Sitewide 4.6% Speaker 0.5% 0.5% Appeal to Authority Sitewide 11.1% Speaker 7.2% 7.2% Biased Writer Voice Sitewide 5.3% Speaker 1.4% 1.4% Quote-first Misdirection Sitewide 0.0% Speaker 3.1% 3.1% Confirmation Bias Sitewide 7.5% Speaker 10.3% 10.3% Sitewide departure map Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often
0.0% 0.0% 5% 5% 10% 10% 15% 15% 20% 20% 25% 25% Negativity Bias: Speaker 5.2%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Authority: Speaker 7.2%, sitewide 11.1% Confirmation Bias: Speaker 10.3%, sitewide 7.5% Availability Heuristic: Speaker 8.4%, sitewide 9.1% Hasty Generalization: Speaker 2.5%, sitewide 8.1% Red Herring: Speaker 7.1%, sitewide 0.7% Burden of Proof: Speaker 6.4%, sitewide 0.4% Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 1.4%, sitewide 5.3% Anecdotal: Speaker 1.0%, sitewide 5.2% Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 0.5%, sitewide 4.6% Recency Bias: Speaker 3.3%, sitewide 2.7% Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 3.1%, sitewide 0.8% Attempt to Sell a Product or Service: Speaker 3.1%, sitewide 0.5% Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 3.1%, sitewide 0.0% Unattributed Quote: Speaker 3.1%, sitewide 1.1% Status Quo Bias: Speaker 1.8%, sitewide 2.2% Pessimism Bias: Speaker 1.6%, sitewide 1.9% Primacy Effect: Speaker 0.7%, sitewide 0.9% Negativity Bias Sitewide rate Speaker rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst