BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Framing Effect, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 32.5% saturation with 38 hits. Analysis detected 131 faulty-reasoning hits from 117 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 32.2% and a BS Rank of 17% (17,776 of 21,182 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 83.90% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.1%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 1.0%Houston Public Media: 2.9%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 1.4%Houston Public Media: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 1.4%Houston Public Media: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 11.1%Michael Hagerty: 3.5%Houston Public Media: 4.9%Framing Effect11.1%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.5%Houston Public Media: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 4.3%Michael Hagerty: 0.9%Houston Public Media: 2.4%Optimism Bias4.3%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 26.5%Michael Hagerty: 3.6%Houston Public Media: 4.8%Negativity Bias26.5%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.1%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.7%Houston Public Media: 0.3%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.6%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.4%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 1.1%Houston Public Media: 0.2%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 32.5%Michael Hagerty: 2.9%Houston Public Media: 3.4%Appeal to Authority32.5%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.8%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 2.0%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.5%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 4.5%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 1.4%Houston Public Media: 1.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 1.4%Houston Public Media: 1.4%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.5%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.0%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 26.5%Michael Hagerty: 3.8%Houston Public Media: 1.0%Biased Writer Voice26.5%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 2.6%Houston Public Media: 1.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 11.1%Michael Hagerty: 5.3%Houston Public Media: 0.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…11.1%

117 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker32%attributed speech79writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageJustin Ballard • 38 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 31 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Justin Ballard

100%flagged-word coverage
38 attributed words100% of attributed speech78% writer coverage
0%20.0%40.0%Biased Writer Voice-39.2 ptsWriter: 39.2%Justin Ballard: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -16.5 ptsWriter: 16.5%Justin Ballard: 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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