Members Only: Get Free Tickets to Irish Fest 89%

By Urban Milwaukee86%

8/4/2026, 3:37:30 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Framing Effect, and Optimism Bias, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 81.4% saturation with 319 hits. Analysis detected 954 faulty-reasoning hits from 392 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 77% and a BS Rank of 89% (3,051 of 27,714 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 89.00% of the article peer group.

Molly and Paddy McFest at Irish Fest 2018. 
Photo by Jack Fennimore. 
The world’s largest celebration of Celtic music and culture is right in our very own backyard. 
Milwaukee’s Irish Fest spans four days, utilizes 17 stages, and offers numerous entertainment acts. 
Aug. 13-16 is that time of year to dust off your shamrocks and stretch out your legs, because we want you to jig on over to the Summerfest grounds for free. 
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Milwaukee’s Irish Fest runs from Aug. 13-16 at Henry Maier Festival Park located at 200 N. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 4.6%Urban Milwaukee: 1.0%Urban Milwaukee: 1.4%Confirmation Bias4.6%This article: 7.1%Urban Milwaukee: 1.7%Urban Milwaukee: 0.5%Anchoring Bias7.1%This article: 8.2%Urban Milwaukee: 2.5%Urban Milwaukee: 1.5%Availability Heuristic8.2%This article: 3.6%Urban Milwaukee: 0.4%Urban Milwaukee: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic3.6%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.2%Urban Milwaukee: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 4.3%Urban Milwaukee: 1.9%Urban Milwaukee: 0.6%Overconfidence Bias4.3%This article: 17.1%Urban Milwaukee: 3.5%Urban Milwaukee: 2.8%Framing Effect17.1%This article: 12.5%Urban Milwaukee: 2.2%Urban Milwaukee: 0.5%Loss Aversion12.5%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.2%Urban Milwaukee: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 15.6%Urban Milwaukee: 2.4%Urban Milwaukee: 1.8%Optimism Bias15.6%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.4%Urban Milwaukee: 0.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 4.2%Urban Milwaukee: 3.9%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 14.3%Urban Milwaukee: 2.4%Urban Milwaukee: 1.3%Self-Serving Bias14.3%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.8%Urban Milwaukee: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.4%Urban Milwaukee: 0.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 13.0%Urban Milwaukee: 2.1%Urban Milwaukee: 1.6%Halo Effect13.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.5%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 1.7%Urban Milwaukee: 0.7%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.1%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 1.2%Urban Milwaukee: 0.3%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 8.4%Urban Milwaukee: 1.6%Urban Milwaukee: 1.8%Appeal to Authority8.4%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 2.3%Urban Milwaukee: 2.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 1.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.9%Urban Milwaukee: 0.6%Bandwagon1.0%This article: 22.2%Urban Milwaukee: 8.0%Urban Milwaukee: 3.5%Appeal to Emotion22.2%This article: 5.4%Urban Milwaukee: 0.6%Urban Milwaukee: 0.3%Begging the Question5.4%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.6%Urban Milwaukee: 0.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.3%Urban Milwaukee: 1.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 4.1%Urban Milwaukee: 0.4%Urban Milwaukee: 0.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)4.1%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.1%Urban Milwaukee: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 4.1%Urban Milwaukee: 0.4%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Special Pleading4.1%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.6%Urban Milwaukee: 0.7%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.4%Urban Milwaukee: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 7.7%Urban Milwaukee: 9.4%Urban Milwaukee: 2.0%Biased Writer Voice7.7%This article: 8.9%Urban Milwaukee: 4.2%Urban Milwaukee: 0.8%Indoctrination8.9%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 2.1%Urban Milwaukee: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Urban Milwaukee: 0.8%Urban Milwaukee: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 81.4%Urban Milwaukee: 33.9%Urban Milwaukee: 2.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…81.4%

392 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker8.7%attributed speech358writer words
Selected voice

Urban Milwaukee

100%flagged-word coverage
34 attributed words100% of attributed speech88% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +20.4 ptsWriter: 79.6%Urban Milwaukee: 100.0%100.0%Indoctrination-9.8 ptsWriter: 9.8%Urban Milwaukee: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-8.4 ptsWriter: 8.4%Urban Milwaukee: 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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