Speaker summary
⁠73%1 analyzed article/video80.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Tim Shipman results contain 7 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Quote-first Misdirection, and Unattributed Quote, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 89.1% saturation with 79.266 hits. Analysis detected 271.266 faulty-reasoning hits from 80.667 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 34.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠53% (13,404 of 28,364 speakers). This Tim Shipman is worse (more manipulative) than 52.70% of the peer group.
Tim Shipman
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%
⁠53%Tim Shipman (selected)35%
⁠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: 80.667
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

53% percentile
025507510052.7% percentile
34.2% BS Score1 analyzed videos80.7 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–100%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Speaker 89.1%89.1%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 39.1%39.1%Unattributed QuoteSitewide 1.1%Speaker 39.1%39.1%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 39.1%39.1%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 10.9%10.9%Recency BiasSitewide 2.7%Speaker 10.9%10.9%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 10.9%10.9%

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%Anecdotal: Speaker 89.1%, sitewide 5.2%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 39.1%, sitewide 7.5%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 39.1%, sitewide 0.0%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 39.1%, sitewide 1.1%Negativity Bias: Speaker 10.9%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 10.9%, sitewide 11.1%Recency Bias: Speaker 10.9%, sitewide 2.7%AnecdotalSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos

How David Miliband failed upwards⁠64%
UnHerd⁠69%By Ian Birrell⁠75%7/14/2026, 11:03:31 PM