Speaker summary
⁠84%1 analyzed article/video128 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Steve Cortes results contain 18 faulty reasoning types, including Indoctrination, Negativity Bias, and Biased Writer Voice, with Politically Right Leaning Bias as the most egregious example at 48.5% saturation with 99 hits. Analysis detected 840.116 faulty-reasoning hits from 128 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 27.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠44% (14,971 of 26,730 speakers). This Steve Cortes is better (less manipulative) than 56.00% of the peer group.
Steve Cortes
Speaker details
Total words: 128
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

44% percentile
025507510044.0% percentile
27.6% BS Score1 analyzed videos128 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–75%
0.0%20%40%60%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Speaker 58.0%58.0%Ad HominemSitewide 2.2%Speaker 50.4%50.4%Politically Right Leaning…Sitewide 1.4%Speaker 48.5%48.5%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 51.1%51.1%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 51.0%51.0%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Speaker 33.3%33.3%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 34.4%34.4%Slippery SlopeSitewide 1.7%Speaker 23.5%23.5%Straw ManSitewide 0.9%Speaker 18.6%18.6%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Speaker 18.6%18.6%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%Indoctrination: Speaker 58.0%, sitewide 0.0%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 51.1%, sitewide 15.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 51.0%, sitewide 19.2%Ad Hominem: Speaker 50.4%, sitewide 2.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias: Speaker 48.5%, sitewide 1.4%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 34.4%, sitewide 8.1%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 33.3%, sitewide 5.3%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 23.5%, sitewide 9.1%Slippery Slope: Speaker 23.5%, sitewide 1.7%In-Group Bias: Speaker 22.8%, sitewide 6.9%Begging the Question: Speaker 18.6%, sitewide 1.7%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Speaker 18.6%, sitewide 3.1%Straw Man: Speaker 18.6%, sitewide 0.9%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 11.8%, sitewide 4.6%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 10.8%, sitewide 0.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 9.3%, sitewide 0.8%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 5.9%, sitewide 7.5%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 5.9%, sitewide 1.1%IndoctrinationSitewide rateSpeaker rate

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