L.A. TACO85%

A Completely Interactive Guide To L.A. Voter Guides 84%

5/27/2026, 6:51:39 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including In-Group Bias, Politically Left Leaning Bias, and Confirmation Bias, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 39.6% saturation with 38 hits. Analysis detected 228 faulty-reasoning hits from 96 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 76% and a BS Rank of 84% (3,392 of 21,112 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 83.90% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 17.7%L.A. TACO: 3.9%Confirmation Bias17.7%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 14.6%L.A. TACO: 4.1%Availability Heuristic14.6%This article: 17.7%L.A. TACO: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic17.7%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 14.6%L.A. TACO: 1.7%Overconfidence Bias14.6%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 11.6%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 2.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 11.3%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 4.2%L.A. TACO: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias4.2%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 37.5%L.A. TACO: 5.0%In-Group Bias37.5%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 1.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 6.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 1.0%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 1.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 14.6%L.A. TACO: 3.6%Appeal to Authority14.6%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 5.8%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 1.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 10.8%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 17.7%L.A. TACO: 0.2%Composition/Division17.7%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 5.8%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 1.4%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 4.2%L.A. TACO: 8.7%Biased Writer Voice4.2%This article: 17.7%L.A. TACO: 2.0%Indoctrination17.7%This article: 37.5%L.A. TACO: 3.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias37.5%This article: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 39.6%L.A. TACO: 2.9%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…39.6%

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