City Desk Wired: For all that breaks fast or resides in the margins  3%

By Joe Dwinell3%

5/27/2026, 11:46:23 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 3 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice and Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, with Hasty Generalization as the most egregious example at 25% saturation with 13 hits. Analysis detected 36 faulty-reasoning hits from 52 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 14.7% and a BS Rank of 3% (21,319 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 97.40% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 3.0%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 2.0%bostonherald: 4.0%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 2.5%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 3.6%bostonherald: 8.4%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.8%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 3.0%bostonherald: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 3.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.1%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 3.9%bostonherald: 5.0%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 2.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.0%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.6%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 2.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 3.0%bostonherald: 0.7%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 3.7%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.4%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 25.0%Joe Dwinell: 2.0%bostonherald: 2.7%Hasty Generalization25.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 8.3%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.4%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.5%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.7%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.7%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 25.0%Joe Dwinell: 8.8%bostonherald: 2.0%Biased Writer Voice25.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 1.2%bostonherald: 0.4%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joe Dwinell: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.5%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 19.2%Joe Dwinell: 3.8%bostonherald: 0.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…19.2%

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