1 dead, 2 missing after boat carrying 19 capsizes in San Francisco Bay 7%

By Clara Harter64%

7/14/2026, 11:56:40 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Negativity Bias, and Availability Heuristic, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 34% saturation with 65 hits. Analysis detected 340 faulty-reasoning hits from 191 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 22.8% and a BS Rank of 7% (20,506 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 93.70% of the article peer group.

One person is dead and two remain missing after a boat carrying 19 people capsized and sank in the San Francisco Bay on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. 
The San Francisco Fire Department was in “full rescue mode” at 5:30 p.m. with 11 boats and multiple divers scouring the waters for the two missing people, Fire Chief Dean Crispen said at a news conference. 
The Fire Department and partner agencies responded to a report of a vessel on fire about 600 yards off of Alcatraz Island at 3:35 p.m. 
Upon arriving at the scene, personnel did not see evidence of a fire, but found a three-deck pontoon boat capsized with one person who was severely injured. 
Crews began performing CPR on the individual and transported them to shore, where they were declared dead at Gashouse Cove Marina, Crispen said. 
One dog aboard the vessel also died in the accident. 
Three people were transported to a local hospital with impact injuries from falling into the water, while 13 others are safe on shore, he said. 
This is a developing story. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 4.3%Daily Pilot: 2.9%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 1.5%Daily Pilot: 1.2%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 19.4%Clara Harter: 5.4%Daily Pilot: 3.5%Availability Heuristic19.4%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 1.1%Daily Pilot: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.5%Daily Pilot: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 1.8%Daily Pilot: 1.9%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 34.0%Clara Harter: 9.8%Daily Pilot: 7.5%Framing Effect34.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.6%Daily Pilot: 0.9%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 1.0%Daily Pilot: 0.9%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.1%Daily Pilot: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 13.1%Clara Harter: 1.8%Daily Pilot: 3.6%Optimism Bias13.1%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.6%Daily Pilot: 1.4%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 24.1%Clara Harter: 11.8%Daily Pilot: 7.8%Negativity Bias24.1%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 1.0%Daily Pilot: 2.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 1.5%Daily Pilot: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.0%Daily Pilot: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 1.2%Daily Pilot: 1.6%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.6%Daily Pilot: 0.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 18.8%Clara Harter: 1.7%Daily Pilot: 5.1%Halo Effect18.8%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.5%Daily Pilot: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.0%Daily Pilot: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.8%Daily Pilot: 1.3%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.4%Daily Pilot: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.0%Daily Pilot: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 1.0%Daily Pilot: 0.9%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.2%Daily Pilot: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 18.8%Clara Harter: 5.2%Daily Pilot: 4.9%Appeal to Authority18.8%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.9%Daily Pilot: 1.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.3%Daily Pilot: 0.7%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.1%Daily Pilot: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 2.4%Daily Pilot: 4.4%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.4%Daily Pilot: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.4%Daily Pilot: 1.0%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 5.2%Clara Harter: 8.6%Daily Pilot: 5.7%Appeal to Emotion5.2%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.8%Daily Pilot: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 2.1%Daily Pilot: 2.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.0%Daily Pilot: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 1.0%Daily Pilot: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.1%Daily Pilot: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.1%Daily Pilot: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 1.2%Daily Pilot: 2.8%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.0%Daily Pilot: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 1.2%Daily Pilot: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.0%Daily Pilot: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.1%Daily Pilot: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.1%Daily Pilot: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.4%Daily Pilot: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.6%Daily Pilot: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 18.8%Clara Harter: 2.5%Daily Pilot: 1.3%Unattributed Quote18.8%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.9%Daily Pilot: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 25.7%Clara Harter: 4.1%Daily Pilot: 6.0%Biased Writer Voice25.7%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 1.1%Daily Pilot: 1.5%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 1.8%Daily Pilot: 0.9%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 1.5%Daily Pilot: 0.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clara Harter: 0.2%Daily Pilot: 4.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

191 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker44%attributed speech107writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 0.0% coverageDean Crispen • 36 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 0.0% coverageDean Crispen • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageDean Crispen • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Dean Crispen

100%flagged-word coverage
84 attributed words100% of attributed speech47% writer coverage
0%22.5%45.0%Unattributed Quote+42.9 ptsWriter: 0.0%Dean Crispen: 42.9%42.9%Biased Writer Voice+30.7 ptsWriter: 12.1%Dean Crispen: 42.9%42.9%

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

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Analysis

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