Speaker summary
51% 17 analyzed articles/videos 1,003.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Sonia Sotomayor results contain 27 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias , Pessimism Bias , and Slippery Slope , with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 19.1% saturation with 192.039 hits . Analysis detected 1,830.59 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,003.333 analyzed words across 17 articles, generating a BS Score of 4.8% and a BS Rank of 3% (26,348 of 26,963 speakers). This Sonia Sotomayor is better (less manipulative) than 97.70% of the peer group. Sonia Sotomayor
Speaker details
Total words: 1,003.333
Article count: 17
Authors
Ranking context Position among analyzed speakers
2% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 2.3% percentile 4.8% BS Score17 analyzed videos1K 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% Pessimism Bias Sitewide 1.9% Speaker 12.6% 12.6% Slippery Slope Sitewide 1.7% Speaker 10.8% 10.8% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Speaker 12.8% 12.8% Confirmation Bias Sitewide 7.5% Speaker 2.9% 2.9% Quote-first Misdirection Sitewide 0.0% Speaker 4.3% 4.3% Overconfidence Bias Sitewide 4.6% Speaker 1.4% 1.4% Appeal to Emotion Sitewide 15.9% Speaker 19.1% 19.1% Appeal to Authority Sitewide 11.1% Speaker 8.3% 8.3% Hasty Generalization Sitewide 8.1% Speaker 5.5% 5.5% Ad Hominem Sitewide 2.2% Speaker 4.8% 4.8% 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 12.8%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 19.1%, sitewide 15.9% Pessimism Bias: Speaker 12.6%, sitewide 1.9% Appeal to Authority: Speaker 8.3%, sitewide 11.1% Slippery Slope: Speaker 10.8%, sitewide 1.7% Availability Heuristic: Speaker 7.1%, sitewide 9.1% Hasty Generalization: Speaker 5.5%, sitewide 8.1% Confirmation Bias: Speaker 2.9%, sitewide 7.5% Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 7.2%, sitewide 5.3% Anecdotal: Speaker 4.0%, sitewide 5.2% Ad Hominem: Speaker 4.8%, sitewide 2.2% Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 4.7%, sitewide 3.3% Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 1.4%, sitewide 4.6% Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 4.3%, sitewide 0.0% Anchoring Bias: Speaker 1.5%, sitewide 4.0% Begging the Question: Speaker 3.1%, sitewide 1.7% Politically Left Leaning Bias: Speaker 3.0%, sitewide 2.0% Primacy Effect: Speaker 3.0%, sitewide 0.9% Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 2.2%, sitewide 2.7% Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 2.7%, sitewide 0.8% False Dilemma: Speaker 2.7%, sitewide 1.5% Loss Aversion: Speaker 1.0%, sitewide 2.5% Status Quo Bias: Speaker 1.1%, sitewide 2.2% Hindsight Bias: Speaker 1.5%, sitewide 1.4% Negativity Bias Sitewide rate Speaker rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst