The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1605: The Rush to Height ⁠2%

By Dr. John Lienhard⁠20%

7/19/2026, 5:01:45 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 1 faulty reasoning type, including Framing Effect, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 27.3% saturation with 21 hits. Analysis detected 21 faulty-reasoning hits from 77 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 12.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠2% (20,168 of 20,557 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 98.10% of the article peer group.

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Engines Podcast 
Chicago Fire 
Chrysler Building 
elevators 
Empire State Building 
Home Insurance Building 
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load bearing walls 
Louis Sullivan 
Metropolis 
skyscrapers 
steel frame construction 
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: 27.3%Dr. John Lienhard: 4.6%Houston Public Media: 5.1%Framing Effect27.3%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: 0.5%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: 2.2%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: 5.0%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.0%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: 1.7%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: 3.6%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: 4.6%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: 0.2%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: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 1.1%Houston Public Media: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%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: 0.9%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: 1.7%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.9%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: 0.0%Dr. John Lienhard: 23.1%Houston Public Media: 0.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

77 words analyzed.

Speakers

8speakers34%attributed speech51writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageEngines of Our Ingenuity • 11 words • 0.0% coverageEngines Podcast • 2 words • 0.0% coverageChicago Fire • 2 words • 0.0% coverageChrysler Building • 2 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageEmpire State Building • 3 words • 0.0% coverageHome Insurance Building • 3 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverageLouis Sullivan • 2 words • 0.0% coverageMetropolis • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverage
0%flagged-word coverage
11 attributed words42% of attributed speech41% writer coverage

No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.

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

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Analysis

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