BS Summary: This article contains 5 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Biased Writer Voice, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 21.7% saturation with 30 hits. Analysis detected 89 faulty-reasoning hits from 138 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 21.5% and a BS Rank of 6% (20,703 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 94.60% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.7%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.1%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 9.4%Michael Hagerty: 1.0%Houston Public Media: 2.7%Availability Heuristic9.4%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 2.1%Houston Public Media: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 1.3%Houston Public Media: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.3%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 4.9%Houston Public Media: 4.9%Framing Effect0.0%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: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 14.5%Michael Hagerty: 0.9%Houston Public Media: 2.3%Optimism Bias14.5%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 4.2%Houston Public Media: 4.7%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.7%Houston Public Media: 0.4%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: 1.5%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: 21.7%Michael Hagerty: 3.6%Houston Public Media: 3.5%Appeal to Authority21.7%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.1%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: 1.3%Houston Public Media: 1.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.2%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: 1.3%Houston Public Media: 1.3%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: 0.8%Houston Public Media: 1.1%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 9.4%Michael Hagerty: 4.4%Houston Public Media: 1.1%Biased Writer Voice9.4%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 2.5%Houston Public Media: 1.7%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: 9.4%Michael Hagerty: 6.3%Houston Public Media: 0.8%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…9.4%

138 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker31%attributed speech95writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageSeema Jilani • 30 words • 0.0% coverageSeema Jilani • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Seema Jilani

100%flagged-word coverage
43 attributed words100% of attributed speech35% writer coverage
0%17.5%35.0%Biased Writer Voice+30.2 ptsWriter: 0.0%Seema Jilani: 30.2%30.2%Attempt to Sell a Product -13.7 ptsWriter: 13.7%Seema Jilani: 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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