Speaker summary
⁠94%1 analyzed article/video42 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Mercatus Center results contain 4 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Negativity Bias, and Slippery Slope, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 42 hits. Analysis detected 168 faulty-reasoning hits from 42 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of ⁠92% (4,011 of 45,145 speakers). This Mercatus Center is worse (more manipulative) than 91.10% of the peer group.
Mercatus Center
Speaker ranking list
PercentileSpeakerBS Score
⁠0%Paul Heideman1%
⁠0%The Brookings Institution1%
⁠0%Conor Heffernan1%
⁠0%Gen Jack Keane1%
⁠0%Katy Longshore1%
⁠92%Mercatus Center (selected)100%
⁠100%291 Brewhouse100%
⁠100%21 Grams100%
⁠100%2035 Initiative100%
⁠100%1X representative100%
⁠100%1455 Storytelling Arts100%
Speaker details
Total words: 42
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

91% percentile
025507510091.1% percentile
100.0% BS Score1 analyzed videos42 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–125%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%120%Slippery SlopeSitewide 1.7%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 100.0%100.0%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 100.0%100.0%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%80%80%100%100%120%120%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 9.1%Negativity Bias: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 19.2%Slippery Slope: Speaker 100.0%, sitewide 1.7%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos