Speaker summary
50%5 analyzed articles/videos138.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These City of Dallas results contain 4 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Confirmation Bias, and Optimism Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 46.2% saturation with 78 hits. Analysis detected 192 faulty-reasoning hits from 138.667 analyzed words across 5 articles, generating a BS Score of 29% and a BS Rank of 49% (23,190 of 45,144 speakers). This City of Dallas is better (less manipulative) than 51.40% of the peer group.
City of Dallas
Speaker ranking list
PercentileSpeakerBS Score
0%Paul Heideman1%
0%The Brookings Institution1%
0%Conor Heffernan1%
0%Gen Jack Keane1%
0%Katy Longshore1%
49%City of Dallas (selected)29%
100%291 Brewhouse100%
100%21 Grams100%
100%2035 Initiative100%
100%1X representative100%
100%1455 Storytelling Arts100%

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

49% percentile
025507510048.6% percentile
29.0% BS Score5 analyzed videos138.7 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Speaker 46.1%46.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)Sitewide 0.8%Speaker 27.8%27.8%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 27.2%27.2%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 14.7%14.7%

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%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 46.1%, sitewide 5.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 27.8%, sitewide 0.8%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 27.2%, sitewide 7.5%Optimism Bias: Speaker 14.7%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide rateSpeaker rate