Speaker summary
⁠46%1 analyzed article/video81.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These April McIver results contain 4 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Self-Serving Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 38.1% saturation with 34.875 hits. Analysis detected 125.875 faulty-reasoning hits from 81.333 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 28.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠46% (15,527 of 28,364 speakers). This April McIver is better (less manipulative) than 54.70% of the peer group.
April McIver
Speaker ranking list
Speaker details
Total words: 81.333
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

45% percentile
025507510045.3% percentile
28.2% BS Score1 analyzed videos81.3 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 38.1%38.1%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Speaker 24.6%24.6%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 24.6%24.6%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 25.4%25.4%

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%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 38.1%, sitewide 15.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 25.4%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 24.6%, sitewide 11.1%Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 24.6%, sitewide 3.7%Appeal to EmotionSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos