BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Recency Bias, Primacy Effect, and Optimism Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 24.2% saturation with 39 hits. Analysis detected 86 faulty-reasoning hits from 161 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 7.3% and a BS Rank of 2% (27,955 of 28,486 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 98.10% of the article peer group.
(WSB photo by Jason Grotelueschen - West Seattle Junction ballot box on Election Night)
Though the first round of election results last night didn't leave us with any local cliffhangers, we traditionally revisit the same races when the second round comes out.
So here's where these stand after this afternoon's batch of results:
SEATTLE PROP.
1, LIBRARY LEVY
Yes – 84879 – 72.41%
No – 32341 – 27.59%
KING COUNTY COUNCIL, DISTRICT 8
Teresa Mosqueda* – 22985 – 63.91%
Nick Duda – 9668 – 26.88%
Mia Jacobson – 3174 – 8.83%
U.S.
HOUSE REP., DISTRICT 7
Pramila Jayapal* – 104661 – 83.44%
Nirav Sheth – 13261 – 10.57%
Gwen Kirkland – 4137 – 3.30%
David W.
Blomstrom – 2905 – 2.32%
STATE HOUSE REP, 34TH DISTRICT, POSITION 2
Joe Fitzgibbon* – 18626 – 74.15%
Mary Anito – 6111 – 24.33%
See all King County results here.
The third round will be released Friday afternoon.
Speakers
9speakers33%attributed speech108writer words
Selected voice
0%flagged-word coverageGwen Kirkland
6 attributed words11% of attributed speech44% writer coverage
Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.
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Analysis
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