Speaker summary
⁠48%2 analyzed articles/videos31 analyzed words
BS Summary: These The Seattle Times results contain 4 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Availability Heuristic, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 70.8% saturation with 34 hits. Analysis detected 82 faulty-reasoning hits from 31 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 42.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠60% (10,764 of 26,780 speakers). This The Seattle Times is worse (more manipulative) than 59.80% of the peer group.
The Seattle Times
Speaker details
Total words: 31
Article count: 2
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

60% percentile
025507510059.8% percentile
42.7% BS Score2 analyzed videos31 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–75%
0.0%20%40%60%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 70.8%70.8%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 41.7%41.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Speaker 29.2%29.2%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 29.2%29.2%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 70.8%, sitewide 11.1%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 41.7%, sitewide 7.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 29.2%, sitewide 0.8%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 29.2%, sitewide 9.1%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos