Speaker summary
⁠82%1 analyzed article/video218.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Steve Deace results contain 21 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Burden of Proof, and Personal Incredulity, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 39.6% saturation with 141 hits. Analysis detected 893.642 faulty-reasoning hits from 218.667 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 16.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠26% (21,091 of 28,364 speakers). This Steve Deace is better (less manipulative) than 74.40% of the peer group.
Steve Deace
Speaker ranking list
PercentileSpeakerBS Score
⁠0%The Brookings Institution1%
⁠0%Gen Jack Keane1%
⁠0%Shahryar Yadegar1%
⁠0%Mike Muse1%
⁠0%Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Inc.1%
⁠26%Steve Deace (selected)17%
⁠100%4MATIV100%
⁠100%42nd Avenue and High Street I-880 access improvement project page100%
⁠100%314 Action Fund100%
⁠100%21 Grams100%
⁠100%1X representative100%
Speaker details
Total words: 218.667
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

26% percentile
025507510025.6% percentile
16.6% BS Score1 analyzed videos218.7 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Dunning-Kruger EffectSitewide 0.1%Speaker 41.5%41.5%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 46.5%46.5%Personal IncredulitySitewide 0.2%Speaker 24.0%24.0%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Speaker 25.4%25.4%Circular ReasoningSitewide 0.1%Speaker 22.8%22.8%Burden of ProofSitewide 0.4%Speaker 22.5%22.5%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 39.6%39.6%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 7.7%7.7%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 24.4%24.4%Red HerringSitewide 0.7%Speaker 13.5%13.5%

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%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 46.5%, sitewide 7.5%Dunning-Kruger Effect: Speaker 41.5%, sitewide 0.1%Negativity Bias: Speaker 39.6%, sitewide 19.2%Framing Effect: Speaker 7.7%, sitewide 26.9%Begging the Question: Speaker 25.4%, sitewide 1.7%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 24.4%, sitewide 8.1%Personal Incredulity: Speaker 24.0%, sitewide 0.2%Circular Reasoning: Speaker 22.8%, sitewide 0.1%Burden of Proof: Speaker 22.5%, sitewide 0.4%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 16.9%, sitewide 9.1%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 8.9%, sitewide 15.9%Red Herring: Speaker 13.5%, sitewide 0.7%Slippery Slope: Speaker 12.6%, sitewide 1.7%Anecdotal: Speaker 10.7%, sitewide 5.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 9.0%, sitewide 1.9%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 6.5%, sitewide 1.9%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 2.5%, sitewide 4.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 4.5%, sitewide 0.8%False Dilemma: Speaker 3.9%, sitewide 1.5%Indoctrination: Speaker 3.6%, sitewide 0.0%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 2.5%, sitewide 0.0%Confirmation BiasSitewide rateSpeaker rate

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