BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Biased Writer Voice, and Framing Effect, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 72.5% saturation with 58 hits. Analysis detected 135 faulty-reasoning hits from 80 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 26.3% and a BS Rank of 10% (19,877 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 90.80% of the article peer group.

A man was stabbed to death in Brooklyn on Wednesday, cops said. 
Isaiah Freeman, 34, was stabbed in the chest near Seaview Ave. and Rockaway Parkway in Canarsie around 8:10 p.m., according to law enforcement. 
Medics rushed the victim to Brookdale Medical Center, where he died. 
The victim was a NYCHA resident living in the Bay View Houses roughly a block away from where he was killed, cops said. 
There were no arrests. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 2.8%newyorkdailynews: 3.2%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 4.8%newyorkdailynews: 3.4%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.2%newyorkdailynews: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.5%newyorkdailynews: 1.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.3%newyorkdailynews: 1.3%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 8.8%Colin Mixson: 8.3%newyorkdailynews: 6.1%Framing Effect8.8%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.2%newyorkdailynews: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.4%newyorkdailynews: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.9%newyorkdailynews: 2.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.1%newyorkdailynews: 1.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 12.9%newyorkdailynews: 9.8%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.4%newyorkdailynews: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.8%newyorkdailynews: 1.5%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.3%newyorkdailynews: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.1%newyorkdailynews: 1.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.8%newyorkdailynews: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 3.4%newyorkdailynews: 3.9%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.6%newyorkdailynews: 0.5%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.2%newyorkdailynews: 1.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.3%newyorkdailynews: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.6%newyorkdailynews: 1.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 72.5%Colin Mixson: 4.2%newyorkdailynews: 3.2%Appeal to Authority72.5%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.5%newyorkdailynews: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.3%newyorkdailynews: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 3.1%newyorkdailynews: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.5%newyorkdailynews: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.3%newyorkdailynews: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 10.3%newyorkdailynews: 7.4%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.4%newyorkdailynews: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 2.1%newyorkdailynews: 3.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.4%newyorkdailynews: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 3.1%newyorkdailynews: 2.6%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.8%newyorkdailynews: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.2%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 72.5%Colin Mixson: 3.5%newyorkdailynews: 2.1%Unattributed Quote72.5%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.3%newyorkdailynews: 1.1%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 15.0%Colin Mixson: 4.8%newyorkdailynews: 6.7%Biased Writer Voice15.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.6%newyorkdailynews: 3.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.8%newyorkdailynews: 0.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.2%newyorkdailynews: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.3%newyorkdailynews: 0.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

80 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker29%attributed speech57writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageIsaiah Freeman • 23 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Isaiah Freeman

100%flagged-word coverage
23 attributed words100% of attributed speech74% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+38.6 ptsWriter: 61.4%Isaiah Freeman: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-21.1 ptsWriter: 21.1%Isaiah Freeman: 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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