Speaker summary
41%50 analyzed articles/videos1,116.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Supreme Court results contain 22 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 18.2% saturation with 393 hits. Analysis detected 1,908 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,116.333 analyzed words across 50 articles, generating a BS Score of 5% and a BS Rank of 3% (38,008 of 39,164 speakers). This Supreme Court is better (less manipulative) than 97.00% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

3% percentile
02550751003.0% percentile
5.0% BS Score50 analyzed videos1.1K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 4.7%4.7%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 16.5%16.5%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 1.7%1.7%Unattributed QuoteSitewide 1.1%Speaker 13.3%13.3%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 9.1%9.1%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 0.4%0.4%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 0.4%0.4%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 18.2%18.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Speaker 6.9%6.9%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Speaker 0.4%0.4%

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 4.7%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 9.1%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 18.2%, sitewide 11.1%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 16.5%, sitewide 0.0%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 1.7%, sitewide 15.9%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 13.3%, sitewide 1.1%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 0.4%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 0.4%, sitewide 8.1%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 7.3%, sitewide 5.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 6.9%, sitewide 0.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias: Speaker 5.9%, sitewide 2.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Speaker 5.6%, sitewide 3.1%Recency Bias: Speaker 5.2%, sitewide 2.7%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 0.4%, sitewide 4.6%Politically Right Leaning Bias: Speaker 4.5%, sitewide 1.4%Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 1.7%, sitewide 3.3%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 2.1%, sitewide 1.9%Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 2.1%, sitewide 1.9%Indoctrination: Speaker 1.7%, sitewide 0.0%Primacy Effect: Speaker 1.6%, sitewide 0.9%Burden of Proof: Speaker 0.4%, sitewide 0.4%Composition/Division: Speaker 0.4%, sitewide 0.2%Framing EffectSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos

Trump administration sued by 25 states over new tariffs on trading partners26%
Al Jazeera75%By Adam Hancock95%8/3/2026, 5:29:48 PM
How a fringe idea about race took over the Supreme Court37%
Vox67%By Ian Millhiser66%8/3/2026, 3:30:00 AM
Kansas Lawsuit: ALPRs Turn a License Plate Into the 'Functional Equivalent' of a 'GPS Tracking Device'35%
Reason.com62%By Jacob Sullum43%7/31/2026, 12:00:34 PM
How predominantly Black areas in 6 states have been split up by redistricting24%
WPLN News32%By Rahul Mukherjee30% NPR77%7/30/2026, 3:26:41 AM
The American disaster34%
UnHerd81%By Jonathan Sumption46%7/24/2026, 4:05:15 PM
Why Florida deportation orders are surging alongside nationwide immigration court trends37%
FOX 13 News24%7/24/2026, 8:31:13 AM
Trump Imposes Massively Harmful and Illegal Section 301 Tariffs73%
Reason.com62%By Ilya Somin62%7/23/2026, 5:32:54 PM
Proportional Representation Gets a New Look13%
The American Prospect43%By Paul Starr14%7/22/2026, 2:30:00 AM
Louisiana Rep. Cleo Fields won't seek reelection after Democrat's seat was redrawn21%
WRAL.com27%By ANNA WILDER — Associated Press/Report for America22%7/21/2026, 5:13:11 PM
Trump to impose 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, invoking the ‘nuclear option’ that could unleash a new wave of economic chaos and inflation73%
Fortune72%By Josh Boak50% The Associated Press73%7/20/2026, 3:31:36 PM