Speaker summary
⁠74%2 analyzed articles/videos181 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Todd Spitzer results contain 13 faulty reasoning types, including Begging the Question, Negativity Bias, and Indoctrination, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 39% saturation with 80.26 hits. Analysis detected 583.148 faulty-reasoning hits from 181 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 19.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠32% (18,885 of 27,666 speakers). This Todd Spitzer is better (less manipulative) than 68.30% of the peer group.
Todd Spitzer
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Speaker details
Total words: 181
Article count: 2
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

32% percentile
025507510031.7% percentile
19.9% BS Score2 analyzed videos181 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Straw ManSitewide 0.9%Speaker 27.5%27.5%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Speaker 26.3%26.3%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 39.0%39.0%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Speaker 22.4%22.4%False DilemmaSitewide 1.5%Speaker 18.7%18.7%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 33.6%33.6%Loss AversionSitewide 2.5%Speaker 16.8%16.8%Fundamental Attribution E…Sitewide 2.7%Speaker 15.1%15.1%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 17.8%17.8%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Speaker 12.8%12.8%

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%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 39.0%, sitewide 15.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 33.6%, sitewide 19.2%Straw Man: Speaker 27.5%, sitewide 0.9%Framing Effect: Speaker 17.8%, sitewide 26.9%Begging the Question: Speaker 26.3%, sitewide 1.7%Indoctrination: Speaker 22.4%, sitewide 0.0%False Dilemma: Speaker 18.7%, sitewide 1.5%Loss Aversion: Speaker 16.8%, sitewide 2.5%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 15.8%, sitewide 11.1%Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 15.1%, sitewide 2.7%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 12.8%, sitewide 4.6%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 7.1%, sitewide 8.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 6.4%, sitewide 0.8%Appeal to EmotionSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos