Speaker summary
⁠87%1 analyzed article/video90 analyzed words
BS Summary: These The Mercury News Editorial Board results contain 6 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Horn Effect, and Indoctrination, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 90 hits. Analysis detected 315 faulty-reasoning hits from 90 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 58.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠75% (7,287 of 28,364 speakers). This The Mercury News Editorial Board is worse (more manipulative) than 74.30% of the peer group.
The Mercury News Editorial Board
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%
⁠75%The Mercury News Editorial Board (selected)59%
⁠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: 90
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

74% percentile
025507510074.3% percentile
58.3% BS Score1 analyzed videos90 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–125%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%120%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Speaker 100.0%100.0%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Speaker 50.0%50.0%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 50.0%50.0%Horn EffectSitewide 1.0%Speaker 50.0%50.0%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Speaker 50.0%50.0%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 50.0%50.0%

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%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 5.3%Halo Effect: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 6.7%Horn Effect: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 1.0%Indoctrination: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 0.0%Negativity Bias: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 19.2%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 0.0%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos