WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Shooting victim found, reportedly said it happened outside WS 4%

8/3/2026, 11:22:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Recency Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 28.7% saturation with 33 hits. Analysis detected 166 faulty-reasoning hits from 115 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 11.7% and a BS Rank of 4% (27,476 of 28,493 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 96.40% of the article peer group.

6:22 PM: SFD and SPD are responding to a report of an 18-year-old with a gunshot wound to the abdomen in the 9400 block of 20th SW (vicinity map). 
However, officers told dispatch that the victim says it happened somewhere else  "in South Seattle"  two hours ago. 
6:26 PM: Medics have confirmed that they're treating a male patient with a single gunshot wound to his lower left abdomen. 
6:42 PM: SFD medics are taking the wounded person to Harborview. 
No other information about the circumstances so far. 
8:28 PM: SFD tells us the victim was in stable condition when transported. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 17.4%West Seattle Blog: 1.3%Confirmation Bias17.4%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: 28.7%West Seattle Blog: 5.6%Framing Effect28.7%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: 7.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.1%Optimism Bias7.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 11.3%West Seattle Blog: 2.4%Negativity Bias11.3%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: 22.6%West Seattle Blog: 2.0%Recency Bias22.6%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%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: 17.4%West Seattle Blog: 0.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)17.4%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: 17.4%West Seattle Blog: 1.6%Unattributed Quote17.4%This article: 11.3%West Seattle Blog: 0.3%Quote-first Misdirection11.3%This article: 11.3%West Seattle Blog: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice11.3%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%

115 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker21%attributed speech91writer words
Selected voice

SFD

54%flagged-word coverage
24 attributed words100% of attributed speech45% writer coverage
0%12.5%25.0%Unattributed Quote-22.0 ptsWriter: 22.0%SFD: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-14.3 ptsWriter: 14.3%SFD: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-14.3 ptsWriter: 14.3%SFD: 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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