Speaker summary
⁠55%1 analyzed article/video98.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These William Hanage results contain 8 faulty reasoning types, including False Dilemma, Halo Effect, and Begging the Question, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 57.1% saturation with 63.375 hits. Analysis detected 193.125 faulty-reasoning hits from 98.667 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 18.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠30% (19,923 of 28,364 speakers). This William Hanage is better (less manipulative) than 70.20% of the peer group.
William Hanage
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%
⁠30%William Hanage (selected)19%
⁠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: 98.667
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

30% percentile
025507510029.8% percentile
18.8% BS Score1 analyzed videos98.7 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 57.1%57.1%False DilemmaSitewide 1.5%Speaker 20.3%20.3%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Speaker 22.3%22.3%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Speaker 10.1%10.1%Hindsight BiasSitewide 1.4%Speaker 10.1%10.1%Begging the QuestionSitewide 1.7%Speaker 10.1%10.1%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Speaker 10.1%10.1%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 10.1%10.1%

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 57.1%, sitewide 11.1%Halo Effect: Speaker 22.3%, sitewide 6.7%False Dilemma: Speaker 20.3%, sitewide 1.5%Begging the Question: Speaker 10.1%, sitewide 1.7%Hindsight Bias: Speaker 10.1%, sitewide 1.4%Indoctrination: Speaker 10.1%, sitewide 0.0%Optimism Bias: Speaker 10.1%, sitewide 6.0%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 10.1%, sitewide 4.6%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos

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