NPR⁠84%

The Queen of Nuclear Physics (Part One): Chien-Shiung Wu's Discovery ⁠67%

By Emily Kwong⁠0% Regina G. Barber⁠0% Berly McCoy⁠0%

5/20/2022, 4:10:28 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including In-Group Bias, Indoctrination, and Biased Writer Voice, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 53.8% saturation with 49 hits. Analysis detected 260 faulty-reasoning hits from 91 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 60.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠67% (7,138 of 21,181 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 66.30% of the article peer group.

In the 1950's, a particle physicist made a landmark discovery that changed what was known about how the universe operates. 
Chien-Shiung Wu did it while raising a family and an ocean away from her relatives in China. 
Short Wave's Scientist-In-Residence Regina Barber joins host Emily Kwong to talk about that landmark discovery—what it meant for the physics world, and what it means to Regina personally as a woman and a Chinese and Mexican American in physics. 
Email the show at shortwave@npr.org. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 5.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 5.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.8%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 4.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.8%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 2.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 53.8%Emily Kwong: 17.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.1%Framing Effect53.8%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 2.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 1.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 18.7%Emily Kwong: 6.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Optimism Bias18.7%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 7.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.3%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 18.7%Emily Kwong: 0.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Self-Serving Bias18.7%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 42.9%Emily Kwong: 3.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%In-Group Bias42.9%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 11.0%Emily Kwong: 3.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Halo Effect11.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 4.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.7%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 22.0%Emily Kwong: 7.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.1%Appeal to Authority22.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 6.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 4.4%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 2.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 2.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 1.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 5.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 18.7%Emily Kwong: 0.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Anecdotal18.7%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 4.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 22.0%Emily Kwong: 0.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.3%Unattributed Quote22.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 29.7%Emily Kwong: 3.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.1%Biased Writer Voice29.7%This article: 42.9%Emily Kwong: 2.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.0%Indoctrination42.9%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Emily Kwong: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 5.5%Emily Kwong: 13.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…5.5%

91 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker43%attributed speech52writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 100.0% coverageShort Wave's Scientist-In-Residence Regina Barber • 39 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverage
100%flagged-word coverage
39 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Indoctrination+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Short Wave's Scientist-In-Residence Regina Barber: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-51.9 ptsWriter: 51.9%Short Wave's Scientist-In-Residence Regina Barber: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-38.5 ptsWriter: 38.5%Short Wave's Scientist-In-Residence Regina Barber: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -9.6 ptsWriter: 9.6%Short Wave's Scientist-In-Residence Regina Barber: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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