BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Halo Effect, and Availability Heuristic, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 91.4% saturation with 64 hits. Analysis detected 226 faulty-reasoning hits from 70 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 79.5% and a BS Rank of 87% (2,787 of 20,443 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 86.40% of the article peer group.

If you really want to know what makes Boston run, you must read Howie Carr’s columns. 
He writes three times a week — and often more! 
You can count on him chasing down every hot tip and pivoting to national politics when others cower from the hard truth. 
If you want your news sugar-coated, try elsewhere. 
It’s not what he delivers! 
Howie doesn't sleep. 
(Herald file photo) 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 3.2%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 31.4%Boston Herald staff: 10.5%bostonherald: 3.6%Availability Heuristic31.4%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 2.6%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 9.0%bostonherald: 1.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 8.3%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 2.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 3.1%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 7.1%Boston Herald staff: 12.9%bostonherald: 4.4%Negativity Bias7.1%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 2.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.9%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.4%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 35.7%Boston Herald staff: 35.2%bostonherald: 0.5%Halo Effect35.7%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 14.3%Boston Herald staff: 4.8%bostonherald: 2.0%Recency Bias14.3%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.6%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.9%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 15.2%bostonherald: 3.9%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 11.4%Boston Herald staff: 11.4%bostonherald: 1.8%False Dilemma11.4%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.2%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.5%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 31.4%Boston Herald staff: 18.1%bostonherald: 2.8%Hasty Generalization31.4%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 22.9%Boston Herald staff: 20.5%bostonherald: 8.3%Appeal to Emotion22.9%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.5%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.6%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.9%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 4.3%Boston Herald staff: 1.4%bostonherald: 0.1%Anecdotal4.3%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 7.1%Boston Herald staff: 2.4%bostonherald: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)7.1%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.6%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 91.4%Boston Herald staff: 79.5%bostonherald: 1.9%Biased Writer Voice91.4%This article: 11.4%Boston Herald staff: 15.2%bostonherald: 0.4%Indoctrination11.4%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Boston Herald staff: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.6%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 54.3%Boston Herald staff: 18.1%bostonherald: 0.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…54.3%

70 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker4.3%attributed speech67writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageHowie Carr • 3 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Howie Carr

100%flagged-word coverage
3 attributed words100% of attributed speech91% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+9.0 ptsWriter: 91.0%Howie Carr: 100.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -56.7 ptsWriter: 56.7%Howie Carr: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-11.9 ptsWriter: 11.9%Howie Carr: 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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