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Newly released court records reveal misconduct inquiry into federal judge⁠88%

By Carrie Johnson⁠0%

2/4/2026, 10:13:18 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Self-Serving Bias, Begging the Question, and Overconfidence Bias, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 96.4% saturation with 160 hits. Analysis detected 757 faulty-reasoning hits from 800 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 80.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠88% (2,738 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 87.50% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 5.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 3.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.8%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 1.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 1.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.8%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 71.7%Carrie Johnson: 1.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.4%Overconfidence Bias71.7%This article: 28.3%Carrie Johnson: 14.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.1%Framing Effect28.3%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 96.4%Carrie Johnson: 1.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Optimism Bias96.4%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 1.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 14.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.3%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 96.4%Carrie Johnson: 4.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Self-Serving Bias96.4%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 2.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 15.1%Carrie Johnson: 3.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Halo Effect15.1%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 1.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.7%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 1.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 15.1%Carrie Johnson: 7.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.1%Appeal to Authority15.1%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 2.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 51.8%Carrie Johnson: 5.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 4.4%Hasty Generalization51.8%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 8.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 81.3%Carrie Johnson: 2.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.9%Begging the Question81.3%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 2.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 2.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 1.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 2.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.3%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 2.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.1%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 1.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carrie Johnson: 0.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

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