Speaker summary
⁠44%9 analyzed articles/videos444.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Thomas Paine results contain 12 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Confirmation Bias, with Overconfidence Bias as the most egregious example at 32.5% saturation with 118 hits. Analysis detected 501.39 faulty-reasoning hits from 444.667 analyzed words across 9 articles, generating a BS Score of 8.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠10% (25,767 of 28,364 speakers). This Thomas Paine is better (less manipulative) than 90.80% of the peer group.
Thomas Paine
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%
⁠10%Thomas Paine (selected)9%
⁠100%4MATIV100%
⁠100%42nd Avenue and High Street I-880 access improvement project page100%
⁠100%314 Action Fund100%
⁠100%21 Grams100%
⁠100%1X representative100%

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

9% percentile
02550751009.2% percentile
8.9% BS Score9 analyzed videos444.7 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Speaker 32.5%32.5%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 3.0%3.0%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 13.3%13.3%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Speaker 7.4%7.4%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 11.8%11.8%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 12.2%12.2%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 7.4%7.4%Unattributed QuoteSitewide 1.1%Speaker 4.6%4.6%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 5.0%5.0%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 3.0%3.0%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%10%10%20%20%30%30%40%40%50%50%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 32.5%, sitewide 4.6%Framing Effect: Speaker 3.0%, sitewide 26.9%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 12.2%, sitewide 15.9%Optimism Bias: Speaker 13.3%, sitewide 6.0%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 11.8%, sitewide 7.5%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 7.4%, sitewide 11.1%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 5.0%, sitewide 8.1%Begging the Question: Speaker 7.4%, sitewide 1.7%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 4.6%, sitewide 1.1%Straw Man: Speaker 3.8%, sitewide 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 3.0%, sitewide 0.0%Hindsight Bias: Speaker 2.8%, sitewide 1.4%Overconfidence BiasSitewide rateSpeaker rate