Speaker summary
45%1 analyzed article/video53 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Joseph VanZandt results contain 4 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Indoctrination, and Self-Serving Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 50% saturation with 32 hits. Analysis detected 128 faulty-reasoning hits from 53 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 50% and a BS Rank of 70% (12,007 of 39,306 speakers). This Joseph VanZandt is worse (more manipulative) than 69.50% of the peer group.
Joseph VanZandt
Speaker ranking list
PercentileSpeakerBS Score
0%The Brookings Institution1%
0%Conor Heffernan1%
0%Gen Jack Keane1%
0%MARGARET BRENNAN1%
0%Shahryar Yadegar1%
70%Joseph VanZandt (selected)50%
100%314 Action Fund100%
100%21 Grams100%
100%2035 Initiative100%
100%1X representative100%
100%1455 Storytelling Arts100%
Speaker details
Total words: 53
Article count: 1
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

70% percentile
025507510069.5% percentile
50.0% BS Score1 analyzed videos53 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–75%
0.0%20%40%60%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Speaker 50.0%50.0%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Speaker 50.0%50.0%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 50.0%50.0%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 50.0%50.0%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 11.1%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 7.5%Indoctrination: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 0.0%Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 50.0%, sitewide 3.7%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos