Speaker summary
⁠52%1 analyzed article/video309 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Dale McGinnity results contain 10 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Loss Aversion, and Appeal to Emotion, with Indoctrination as the most egregious example at 10.7% saturation with 32.968 hits. Analysis detected 238.85 faulty-reasoning hits from 309 analyzed words across 1 article, generating a BS Score of 6.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠6% (26,851 of 28,364 speakers). This Dale McGinnity is better (less manipulative) than 94.70% of the peer group.
Dale McGinnity
Speaker details
Total words: 309
Article count: 1
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Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

5% percentile
02550751005.3% percentile
6.9% BS Score1 analyzed videos309 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–25%
0.0%5%10%15%20%25%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 4.4%4.4%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Speaker 10.7%10.7%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 6.0%6.0%Attempt to Sell a Product…Sitewide 0.5%Speaker 7.0%7.0%Loss AversionSitewide 2.5%Speaker 6.3%6.3%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 7.4%7.4%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 10.6%10.6%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Speaker 7.2%7.2%Anchoring BiasSitewide 4.0%Speaker 4.7%4.7%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Speaker 4.4%4.4%

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 4.4%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 6.0%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 7.4%, sitewide 11.1%Indoctrination: Speaker 10.7%, sitewide 0.0%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 10.6%, sitewide 7.5%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 7.2%, sitewide 8.1%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service: Speaker 7.0%, sitewide 0.5%Loss Aversion: Speaker 6.3%, sitewide 2.5%Anchoring Bias: Speaker 4.7%, sitewide 4.0%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 4.4%, sitewide 4.6%Negativity BiasSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos