Speaker summary
⁠87%1 analyzed article/video21 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Taryn Merkl results contain 2 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 21 hits. Analysis detected 42 faulty-reasoning hits from 21 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of ⁠86% (4,145 of 28,364 speakers). This Taryn Merkl is worse (more manipulative) than 85.40% of the peer group.
Taryn Merkl
Speaker ranking list
Speaker details
Total words: 21
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

85% percentile
025507510085.4% percentile
100.0% BS Score1 analyzed videos21 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–125%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%120%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 100.0%100.0%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%80%80%100%100%120%120%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 15.9%Optimism Bias: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 6.0%Appeal to EmotionSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos