Speaker summary
⁠68%1 analyzed article/video272 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Tom Bowman results contain 9 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Availability Heuristic, and Slippery Slope, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 44.4% saturation with 181 hits. Analysis detected 817 faulty-reasoning hits from 272 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 28.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠47% (15,239 of 28,364 speakers). This Tom Bowman is better (less manipulative) than 53.70% of the peer group.
Tom Bowman
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%
⁠47%Tom Bowman (selected)29%
⁠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: 272
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

46% percentile
025507510046.3% percentile
28.9% BS Score1 analyzed videos272 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–75%
0.0%20%40%60%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 59.3%59.3%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 47.7%47.7%Slippery SlopeSitewide 1.7%Speaker 30.5%30.5%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 44.4%44.4%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 21.3%21.3%Pessimism BiasSitewide 1.9%Speaker 21.3%21.3%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 14.9%14.9%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 14.7%14.7%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Speaker 6.4%6.4%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 59.3%, sitewide 9.1%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 47.7%, sitewide 15.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 44.4%, sitewide 19.2%Slippery Slope: Speaker 30.5%, sitewide 1.7%Framing Effect: Speaker 14.9%, sitewide 26.9%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 21.3%, sitewide 1.9%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 21.3%, sitewide 0.0%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 14.7%, sitewide 8.1%Begging the Question: Speaker 6.4%, sitewide 1.7%Availability HeuristicSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos