BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Appeal to Authority, and Unattributed Quote, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 37.4% saturation with 43 hits. Analysis detected 183 faulty-reasoning hits from 115 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 22.3% and a BS Rank of 6% (20,585 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 94.10% of the article peer group.

On Friday's show: We learn how the war with Iran is reshaping the oil industry and its impact on Houston. 
And we break down The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week. 
On Friday's show: An energy industry watcher explains how the war with Iran is reshaping the oil industry and its impact on Houston. 
Also this hour: We break down The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week. 
And, before they pilot billion-dollar spacecraft, NASA's astronauts first have to learn to fly something much more down to earth. 
We visit LIFT Academy, the flight school in Galveston that is teaching them how. 
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: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 1.0%Houston Public Media: 2.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 17.4%Michael Hagerty: 2.1%Houston Public Media: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic17.4%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: 37.4%Michael Hagerty: 4.9%Houston Public Media: 4.9%Framing Effect37.4%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: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.9%Houston Public Media: 2.3%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 17.4%Michael Hagerty: 4.2%Houston Public Media: 4.7%Negativity Bias17.4%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: 20.0%Michael Hagerty: 3.6%Houston Public Media: 3.5%Appeal to Authority20.0%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: 20.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.8%Houston Public Media: 1.1%Unattributed Quote20.0%This article: 0.0%Michael Hagerty: 0.0%Houston Public Media: 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 17.4%Michael Hagerty: 4.4%Houston Public Media: 1.1%Biased Writer Voice17.4%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: 29.6%Michael Hagerty: 6.3%Houston Public Media: 0.8%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…29.6%

115 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker12%attributed speech101writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 100.0% coverageLIFT Academy • 14 words • 100.0% coverage
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LIFT Academy

100%flagged-word coverage
14 attributed words100% of attributed speech62% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +80.2 ptsWriter: 19.8%LIFT Academy: 100.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote-22.8 ptsWriter: 22.8%LIFT Academy: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-19.8 ptsWriter: 19.8%LIFT Academy: 0.0%0.0%

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

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