Speaker summary
⁠77%1 analyzed article/video43.5 analyzed words
BS Summary: These William Barr results contain 7 faulty reasoning types, including Begging the Question, Unattributed Quote, and False Dilemma, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 62.1% saturation with 36 hits. Analysis detected 128.375 faulty-reasoning hits from 43.5 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 32.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠51% (13,979 of 28,364 speakers). This William Barr is worse (more manipulative) than 50.70% of the peer group.
William Barr
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%
⁠51%William Barr (selected)33%
⁠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: 43.5
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

51% percentile
025507510050.7% percentile
32.6% BS Score1 analyzed videos43.5 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–75%
0.0%20%40%60%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 62.1%62.1%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Speaker 50.0%50.0%Unattributed QuoteSitewide 1.1%Speaker 31.0%31.0%False DilemmaSitewide 1.5%Speaker 28.4%28.4%Slippery SlopeSitewide 1.7%Speaker 19.0%19.0%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 19.0%19.0%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 19.0%19.0%

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 62.1%, sitewide 11.1%Begging the Question: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 1.7%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 31.0%, sitewide 1.1%False Dilemma: Speaker 28.4%, sitewide 1.5%Negativity Bias: Speaker 19.0%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 19.0%, sitewide 15.9%Slippery Slope: Speaker 19.0%, sitewide 1.7%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos