Speaker summary
⁠49%3 analyzed articles/videos357.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Tobias Read results contain 20 faulty reasoning types, including Self-Serving Bias, Negativity Bias, and Optimism Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 17.4% saturation with 129 hits. Analysis detected 861.674 faulty-reasoning hits from 357.667 analyzed words across 3 articles, generating a BS Score of 7.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠6% (26,745 of 28,364 speakers). This Tobias Read is better (less manipulative) than 94.30% of the peer group.
Tobias Read
Speaker details
Total words: 357.667
Article count: 3
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

6% percentile
02550751005.7% percentile
7.1% BS Score3 analyzed videos357.7 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 3.2%3.2%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Speaker 14.5%14.5%Ad HominemSitewide 2.2%Speaker 10.4%10.4%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 8.2%8.2%Straw ManSitewide 0.9%Speaker 9.0%9.0%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 13.3%13.3%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Speaker 6.7%6.7%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 2.0%2.0%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 14.7%14.7%Actor-Observer BiasSitewide 0.6%Speaker 4.8%4.8%

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%Framing Effect: Speaker 3.2%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 14.7%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 17.4%, sitewide 15.9%Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 14.5%, sitewide 3.7%Optimism Bias: Speaker 13.3%, sitewide 6.0%Ad Hominem: Speaker 10.4%, sitewide 2.2%Straw Man: Speaker 9.0%, sitewide 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 8.2%, sitewide 0.0%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 5.5%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 2.0%, sitewide 7.5%Indoctrination: Speaker 6.7%, sitewide 0.0%Anecdotal: Speaker 6.3%, sitewide 5.2%Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 6.2%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Speaker 5.5%, sitewide 2.7%Begging the Question: Speaker 5.3%, sitewide 1.7%Actor-Observer Bias: Speaker 4.8%, sitewide 0.6%Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 3.6%, sitewide 1.9%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 3.4%, sitewide 1.9%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 0.8%, sitewide 1.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 0.8%, sitewide 0.8%Framing EffectSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos