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. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.3%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.4%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.5%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 5.6%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 5.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.1%Optimism Bias5.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.4%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 17.4%West Seattle Blog: 2.0%Recency Bias17.4%This article: 6.8%West Seattle Blog: 0.4%Primacy Effect6.8%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.5%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.9%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.6%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.3%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 24.2%West Seattle Blog: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice24.2%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.2%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

161 words analyzed.

Speakers

9speakers33%attributed speech108writer words
Selected voice

Gwen Kirkland

0%flagged-word coverage
6 attributed words11% of attributed speech44% writer coverage
0%20.0%40.0%Biased Writer Voice-36.1 ptsWriter: 36.1%Gwen Kirkland: 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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