BS Summary: This article contains 24 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Biased Writer Voice, and Hasty Generalization, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 16% saturation with 85 hits. Analysis detected 613 faulty-reasoning hits from 530 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 35.5% and a BS Rank of 33% (18,654 of 27,714 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 67.30% of the article peer group.

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530 words analyzed.

Speakers

8speakers17%attributed speech439writer words
Selected voice

David Crowley

100%flagged-word coverage
8 attributed words8.8% of attributed speech69% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%David Crowley: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-10.3 ptsWriter: 10.3%David Crowley: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -3.9 ptsWriter: 3.9%David Crowley: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-2.5 ptsWriter: 2.5%David Crowley: 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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