Speaker summary
⁠87%2 analyzed articles/videos29 analyzed words
BS Summary: These The Sacramento Bee results contain 4 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, and Ad Hominem, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 29 hits. Analysis detected 74 faulty-reasoning hits from 29 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 63.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠77% (6,551 of 28,364 speakers). This The Sacramento Bee is worse (more manipulative) than 76.90% of the peer group.
The Sacramento Bee
Speaker details
Total words: 29
Article count: 2
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

77% percentile
025507510076.9% percentile
63.8% BS Score2 analyzed videos29 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–125%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%120%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product…Sitewide 0.5%Speaker 55.2%55.2%Ad HominemSitewide 2.2%Speaker 44.8%44.8%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 55.2%55.2%

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%Negativity Bias: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 55.2%, sitewide 15.9%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service: Speaker 55.2%, sitewide 0.5%Ad Hominem: Speaker 44.8%, sitewide 2.2%Negativity BiasSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos