Speaker summary
57% 2 analyzed articles/videos 266 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Cedric Leighton results contain 17 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias , Availability Heuristic , and Overconfidence Bias , with Pessimism Bias as the most egregious example at 23.5% saturation with 100 hits . Analysis detected 506.019 faulty-reasoning hits from 266 analyzed words across 2 articles, generating a BS Score of 7.8% and a BS Rank of 9% (41,438 of 45,123 speakers). This Cedric Leighton is better (less manipulative) than 91.80% of the peer group. Cedric Leighton
Speaker details
Total words: 266
Article count: 2
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Ranking context Position among analyzed speakers
8% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 8.2% percentile 7.8% BS Score2 analyzed videos266 analyzed words
Reasoning profile Selected profile versus the sitewide rate
Highest rates Largest gaps
Shared scale 0–50%
0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Pessimism Bias Sitewide 1.9% Speaker 23.5% 23.5% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Speaker 11.6% 11.6% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Speaker 4.5% 4.5% Ambiguity (Equivocation) Sitewide 0.8% Speaker 8.9% 8.9% Confirmation Bias Sitewide 7.5% Speaker 14.0% 14.0% Recency Bias Sitewide 2.7% Speaker 9.2% 9.2% Appeal to Authority Sitewide 11.1% Speaker 5.2% 5.2% Overconfidence Bias Sitewide 4.6% Speaker 9.2% 9.2% Availability Heuristic Sitewide 9.1% Speaker 13.4% 13.4% False Dilemma Sitewide 1.5% Speaker 5.4% 5.4% 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% Framing Effect: Speaker 11.6%, sitewide 26.9% Pessimism Bias: Speaker 23.5%, sitewide 1.9% Negativity Bias: Speaker 4.5%, sitewide 19.2% Confirmation Bias: Speaker 14.0%, sitewide 7.5% Availability Heuristic: Speaker 13.4%, sitewide 9.1% Appeal to Authority: Speaker 5.2%, sitewide 11.1% Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 9.2%, sitewide 4.6% Recency Bias: Speaker 9.2%, sitewide 2.7% Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 8.9%, sitewide 0.8% Optimism Bias: Speaker 4.9%, sitewide 6.0% False Dilemma: Speaker 5.4%, sitewide 1.5% Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 5.2%, sitewide 1.9% Actor-Observer Bias: Speaker 4.5%, sitewide 0.6% Anchoring Bias: Speaker 4.5%, sitewide 4.0% Slippery Slope: Speaker 4.5%, sitewide 1.7% Hindsight Bias: Speaker 2.6%, sitewide 1.4% Primacy Effect: Speaker 2.6%, sitewide 0.9% Framing Effect Sitewide rate Speaker rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst