Speaker summary
⁠40%3 analyzed articles/videos56.5 analyzed words
BS Summary: These U.S. Department of Transportation results contain 2 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 55.9% saturation with 33 hits. Analysis detected 66 faulty-reasoning hits from 56.5 analyzed words across 3 articles, generating a BS Score of 55.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠74% (7,557 of 28,364 speakers). This U.S. Department of Transportation is worse (more manipulative) than 73.40% of the peer group.
U.S. Department of Transportation
Speaker details
Total words: 56.5
Article count: 3
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

73% percentile
025507510073.4% percentile
55.9% BS Score3 analyzed videos56.5 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–75%
0.0%20%40%60%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Speaker 55.9%55.9%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 55.9%55.9%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 55.9%, sitewide 11.1%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 55.9%, sitewide 5.3%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos