BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 47.4% saturation with 36 hits. Analysis detected 41 faulty-reasoning hits from 76 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 48.7% and a BS Rank of 47% (11,333 of 21,198 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 53.50% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.1%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 2.9%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 4.6%Houston Public Media: 4.9%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 2.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 4.8%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.1%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.3%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.6%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.4%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 1.7%Houston Public Media: 0.2%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 3.4%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.8%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 2.0%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.5%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 4.5%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 6.6%Dr. John Lienhard: 1.1%Houston Public Media: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)6.6%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.0%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.0%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 47.4%Dr. John Lienhard: 23.1%Houston Public Media: 0.8%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…47.4%

76 words analyzed.

Speakers

9speakers42%attributed speech44writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageApple Podcasts • 4 words • 100.0% coverageSpotify • 3 words • 100.0% coverageNPR • 5 words • 100.0% coverageTuneIn • 3 words • 100.0% coverageiHeart • 3 words • 100.0% coveragePandora • 3 words • 100.0% coveragePocket Casts • 4 words • 100.0% coverageOvercast • 3 words • 100.0% coverageAmazon Music • 4 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

NPR

100%flagged-word coverage
5 attributed words16% of attributed speech20% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +90.9 ptsWriter: 9.1%NPR: 100.0%100.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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