Speaker summary
59% 21 analyzed articles/videos 1,125.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Sonia Sotomayor results contain 27 faulty reasoning types, including Slippery Slope , Negativity Bias , and Pessimism Bias , with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 18% saturation with 202.018 hits . Analysis detected 1,910.576 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,125.333 analyzed words across 21 articles, generating a BS Score of 4.4% and a BS Rank of 3% (44,104 of 45,120 speakers). This Sonia Sotomayor is better (less manipulative) than 97.70% of the peer group. Sonia Sotomayor
Speaker details
Total words: 1,125.333
Article count: 21
Authors
Ranking context Position among analyzed speakers
2% percentile 0 25 50 75 100 2.3% percentile 4.4% BS Score21 analyzed videos1.1K analyzed words
Reasoning profile Selected profile versus the sitewide rate
Highest rates Largest gaps
Shared scale 0–25%
0.0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% Slippery Slope Sitewide 1.7% Speaker 11.4% 11.4% Pessimism Bias Sitewide 1.9% Speaker 11.3% 11.3% Negativity Bias Sitewide 19.2% Speaker 11.4% 11.4% Confirmation Bias Sitewide 7.5% Speaker 2.5% 2.5% Quote-first Misdirection Sitewide 0.0% Speaker 3.9% 3.9% Appeal to Authority Sitewide 11.1% Speaker 7.6% 7.6% Overconfidence Bias Sitewide 4.6% Speaker 1.2% 1.2% Hasty Generalization Sitewide 8.1% Speaker 5.0% 5.0% Availability Heuristic Sitewide 9.1% Speaker 6.2% 6.2% Anchoring Bias Sitewide 4.0% Speaker 1.3% 1.3% Sitewide departure map Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often
0.0% 0.0% 5% 5% 10% 10% 15% 15% 20% 20% 25% 25% Negativity Bias: Speaker 11.4%, sitewide 19.2% Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 17.9%, sitewide 15.9% Slippery Slope: Speaker 11.4%, sitewide 1.7% Pessimism Bias: Speaker 11.3%, sitewide 1.9% Appeal to Authority: Speaker 7.6%, sitewide 11.1% Availability Heuristic: Speaker 6.2%, sitewide 9.1% Hasty Generalization: Speaker 5.0%, sitewide 8.1% Confirmation Bias: Speaker 2.5%, sitewide 7.5% Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 6.2%, sitewide 5.3% Anecdotal: Speaker 3.5%, sitewide 5.2% Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 1.2%, sitewide 4.6% Ad Hominem: Speaker 4.5%, sitewide 2.2% Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 4.1%, sitewide 3.3% Anchoring Bias: Speaker 1.3%, sitewide 4.0% Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 3.9%, sitewide 0.0% Begging the Question: Speaker 2.8%, sitewide 1.7% Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 1.9%, sitewide 2.7% Politically Left Leaning Bias: Speaker 2.6%, sitewide 2.0% Primacy Effect: Speaker 2.6%, sitewide 0.9% Loss Aversion: Speaker 0.9%, sitewide 2.5% Status Quo Bias: Speaker 2.5%, sitewide 2.2% Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 2.3%, sitewide 0.8% False Dilemma: Speaker 2.3%, sitewide 1.5% Hindsight Bias: Speaker 1.3%, sitewide 1.4% Negativity Bias Sitewide rate Speaker rate Analyzed articles and videos Sort by Most recent Article rank - best Article rank - worst