Speaker summary
⁠65%1 analyzed article/video319 analyzed words
BS Summary: These T.W. Shannon results contain 26 faulty reasoning types, including Politically Right Leaning Bias, Hasty Generalization, and Anecdotal, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 22.2% saturation with 114 hits. Analysis detected 813.148 faulty-reasoning hits from 319 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 7.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠7% (26,648 of 28,364 speakers). This T.W. Shannon is better (less manipulative) than 93.90% of the peer group.
T.W. Shannon
Speaker details
Total words: 319
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

6% percentile
02550751006.1% percentile
7.3% BS Score1 analyzed videos319 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–25%
0.0%5%10%15%20%25%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 22.9%22.9%Politically Right Leaning…Sitewide 1.4%Speaker 15.0%15.0%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 8.9%8.9%Straw ManSitewide 0.9%Speaker 9.5%9.5%Representativeness Heuris…Sitewide 1.9%Speaker 8.6%8.6%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 22.2%22.2%False DilemmaSitewide 1.5%Speaker 7.4%7.4%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Speaker 9.9%9.9%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Speaker 0.6%0.6%Primacy EffectSitewide 0.9%Speaker 4.7%4.7%

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%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 22.9%, sitewide 8.1%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 22.2%, sitewide 15.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 8.9%, sitewide 19.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias: Speaker 15.0%, sitewide 1.4%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 11.3%, sitewide 7.5%Anecdotal: Speaker 9.9%, sitewide 5.2%Halo Effect: Speaker 9.6%, sitewide 6.7%Straw Man: Speaker 9.5%, sitewide 0.9%In-Group Bias: Speaker 9.4%, sitewide 6.9%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 5.5%, sitewide 9.1%Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 8.6%, sitewide 1.9%Optimism Bias: Speaker 8.6%, sitewide 6.0%False Dilemma: Speaker 7.4%, sitewide 1.5%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 3.1%, sitewide 5.3%Begging the Question: Speaker 4.7%, sitewide 1.7%Primacy Effect: Speaker 4.7%, sitewide 0.9%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 0.6%, sitewide 4.6%Recency Bias: Speaker 4.3%, sitewide 2.7%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 4.1%, sitewide 1.9%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Speaker 3.9%, sitewide 3.1%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 3.1%, sitewide 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 2.9%, sitewide 2.7%Ad Hominem: Speaker 2.6%, sitewide 2.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 2.5%, sitewide 0.8%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide rateSpeaker rate

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