The Wire: Berkeley home of slain Cal professor taken over by squatters 18%

By Berkeleyside Staff18%

7/10/2026, 12:15:00 AM

Keywords: Berkeley Wire

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, and Unattributed Quote, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 27.2% saturation with 124 hits. Analysis detected 558 faulty-reasoning hits from 456 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 33.2% and a BS Rank of 18% (18,039 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 82.40% of the article peer group.

Przemyslaw Jeziorski, the UC Berkeley professor shot and killed July 4, 2025, in Athens while visiting Greece to see his two young children and finalize legal arrangements for future visitation. 
Courtesy: UC Berkeley 
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Squatters have taken over the Berkeley home of the UC Berkeley professor killed during a custody dispute in Greece, the family of Przemyslaw Jeziorski says, and it’s been difficult to remove them under the state’s eviction process. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 2.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 1.1%Berkeleyside: 1.2%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 2.6%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.6%Berkeleyside: 3.2%Availability Heuristic2.6%This article: 11.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 1.9%Berkeleyside: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic11.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 1.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 20.8%Berkeleyside Staff: 7.0%Berkeleyside: 4.1%Framing Effect20.8%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.7%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 2.2%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.4%Berkeleyside: 2.7%Optimism Bias2.2%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 27.2%Berkeleyside Staff: 15.8%Berkeleyside: 5.6%Negativity Bias27.2%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 1.8%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.3%Berkeleyside: 0.9%In-Group Bias1.8%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 2.9%Berkeleyside Staff: 1.7%Berkeleyside: 7.6%Halo Effect2.9%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.9%Berkeleyside Staff: 1.2%Berkeleyside: 1.0%Recency Bias0.9%This article: 3.5%Berkeleyside Staff: 1.1%Berkeleyside: 0.4%Primacy Effect3.5%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 1.8%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.3%Berkeleyside: 3.8%Appeal to Authority1.8%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 2.3%Berkeleyside: 4.7%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 1.0%Berkeleyside: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 9.4%Berkeleyside Staff: 2.6%Berkeleyside: 5.6%Appeal to Emotion9.4%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.5%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 1.0%Berkeleyside: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 3.7%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.6%Berkeleyside: 3.4%Anecdotal3.7%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 1.1%Berkeleyside: 1.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 12.7%Berkeleyside Staff: 5.3%Berkeleyside: 1.1%Unattributed Quote12.7%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 1.5%Berkeleyside: 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 8.1%Berkeleyside Staff: 1.4%Berkeleyside: 5.1%Biased Writer Voice8.1%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 1.7%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Berkeleyside Staff: 0.0%Berkeleyside: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 13.8%Berkeleyside Staff: 2.4%Berkeleyside: 3.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…13.8%

456 words analyzed.

Speakers

12speakers21%attributed speech358writer words
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Writer's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 0.0% coverageUC Berkeley • 3 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coveragePrzemyslaw Jeziorski • 37 words • 100.0% coverageNBC Bay Area • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageKRON4 • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 50 words • 0.0% coverageNY Times • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageDaily Cal • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverageSF Chronicle • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageBerkeley Scanner • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageBerkeley Scanner • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageDaily Cal • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageLondon Review of Books • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageJoey Yi Zhou • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 0.0% coverageDaily Cal • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageKQED • 3 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageAlex Park • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Przemyslaw Jeziorski

100%flagged-word coverage
37 attributed words38% of attributed speech79% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Przemyslaw Jeziorski: 100.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+94.1 ptsWriter: 5.9%Przemyslaw Jeziorski: 100.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -16.2 ptsWriter: 16.2%Przemyslaw Jeziorski: 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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