Speaker summary
⁠68%5 analyzed articles/videos206.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Steve Bannon results contain 19 faulty reasoning types, including Quote-first Misdirection, Confirmation Bias, and In-Group Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 40.2% saturation with 85.406 hits. Analysis detected 576.071 faulty-reasoning hits from 206.333 analyzed words across 5 articles, generating a BS Score of 13.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠19% (23,119 of 28,364 speakers). This Steve Bannon is better (less manipulative) than 81.50% of the peer group.
Steve Bannon
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

19% percentile
025507510018.5% percentile
13.2% BS Score5 analyzed videos206.3 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 40.2%40.2%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 25.8%25.8%Circular ReasoningSitewide 0.1%Speaker 15.5%15.5%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 20.3%20.3%Representativeness Heuris…Sitewide 1.9%Speaker 12.6%12.6%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Speaker 10.8%10.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Speaker 8.9%8.9%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 15.6%15.6%Slippery SlopeSitewide 1.7%Speaker 8.6%8.6%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Speaker 13.7%13.7%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%10%10%20%20%30%30%40%40%50%50%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 40.2%, sitewide 11.1%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 25.8%, sitewide 0.0%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 20.3%, sitewide 7.5%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 14.7%, sitewide 15.9%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 15.6%, sitewide 8.1%Circular Reasoning: Speaker 15.5%, sitewide 0.1%In-Group Bias: Speaker 13.7%, sitewide 6.9%Halo Effect: Speaker 12.6%, sitewide 6.7%Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 12.6%, sitewide 1.9%Begging the Question: Speaker 10.8%, sitewide 1.7%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 10.7%, sitewide 4.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 8.9%, sitewide 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 8.9%, sitewide 2.7%Slippery Slope: Speaker 8.6%, sitewide 1.7%Primacy Effect: Speaker 7.0%, sitewide 0.9%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 6.7%, sitewide 5.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Speaker 6.5%, sitewide 3.1%Indoctrination: Speaker 6.3%, sitewide 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias: Speaker 6.3%, sitewide 1.4%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

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