Speaker summary
75% 163 analyzed articles/videos 9,312.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Pete Hegseth results contain 52 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect , Overconfidence Bias , and Begging the Question , with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 13.9% saturation with 1,293.397 hits . Analysis detected 12,679.954 faulty-reasoning hits from 9,312.333 analyzed words across 163 articles, generating a BS Score of 2.5% and a BS Rank of 1% (39,975 of 40,165 speakers). This Pete Hegseth is better (less manipulative) than 99.50% of the peer group. Pete Hegseth
Speaker details
Total words: 9,312.333
Article count: 163
Authors
Ranking context Position among analyzed speakers
1% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 0.5% percentile 2.5% BS Score163 analyzed videos9.3K analyzed words
Reasoning profile Selected profile versus the sitewide rate
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Shared scale 0–50%
0.0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Framing Effect Sitewide 26.9% Speaker 11.7% 11.7% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Speaker 4.6% 4.6% Availability Heuristic Sitewide 9.1% Speaker 1.4% 1.4% False Dilemma Sitewide 1.5% Speaker 6.6% 6.6% Appeal to Authority Sitewide 11.1% Speaker 6.1% 6.1% Quote-first Misdirection Sitewide 0.0% Speaker 4.5% 4.5% Anecdotal Sitewide 5.2% Speaker 0.8% 0.8% Begging the Question Sitewide 1.7% Speaker 6.0% 6.0% Halo Effect Sitewide 6.7% Speaker 2.8% 2.8% Hasty Generalization Sitewide 8.1% Speaker 4.9% 4.9% 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 11.7%, sitewide 26.9% Negativity Bias: Speaker 4.6%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 13.9%, sitewide 15.9% Appeal to Authority: Speaker 6.1%, sitewide 11.1% Availability Heuristic: Speaker 1.4%, sitewide 9.1% Hasty Generalization: Speaker 4.9%, sitewide 8.1% Confirmation Bias: Speaker 5.0%, sitewide 7.5% Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 7.5%, sitewide 4.6% In-Group Bias: Speaker 4.9%, sitewide 6.9% Halo Effect: Speaker 2.8%, sitewide 6.7% False Dilemma: Speaker 6.6%, sitewide 1.5% Optimism Bias: Speaker 3.6%, sitewide 6.0% Begging the Question: Speaker 6.0%, sitewide 1.7% Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 2.8%, sitewide 5.3% Anecdotal: Speaker 0.8%, sitewide 5.2% Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 4.5%, sitewide 0.0% Anchoring Bias: Speaker 1.9%, sitewide 4.0% Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 2.6%, sitewide 3.7% Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 1.1%, sitewide 3.3% Ad Hominem: Speaker 3.3%, sitewide 2.2% Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 3.2%, sitewide 0.8% Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Speaker 2.7%, sitewide 3.1% Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 1.2%, sitewide 2.7% Recency Bias: Speaker 1.5%, sitewide 2.7% Framing Effect Sitewide rate Speaker rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst