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8/5/2026, 7:10:45 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Composition/Division, and Pessimism Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 41.5% saturation with 134 hits. Analysis detected 491 faulty-reasoning hits from 323 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 56.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠71% (8,391 of 28,133 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 70.20% of the article peer group.

Next City’s economic justice news coverage focuses on solutions that level the playing field and work toward economic justice in cities when it comes to jobs, small business, healthy food access, public spending and space for economic use. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Next City: 2.0%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 7.7%Next City: 0.3%Anchoring Bias7.7%This article: 26.9%Next City: 3.9%Availability Heuristic26.9%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.1%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 41.5%Next City: 14.2%Framing Effect41.5%This article: 1.5%Next City: 0.8%Loss Aversion1.5%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.9%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 9.0%Next City: 4.7%Optimism Bias9.0%This article: 14.6%Next City: 1.7%Pessimism Bias14.6%This article: 10.2%Next City: 5.7%Negativity Bias10.2%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.1%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 1.2%Next City: 0.9%In-Group Bias1.2%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 1.9%Next City: 1.4%Halo Effect1.9%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 2.2%Next City: 1.2%Recency Bias2.2%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.0%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.1%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 1.1%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 1.6%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 2.8%Next City: 1.0%Slippery Slope2.8%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 3.1%Next City: 5.6%Hasty Generalization3.1%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.2%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 3.4%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.2%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 1.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.2%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 26.9%Next City: 1.2%Composition/Division26.9%This article: 0.0%Next City: 1.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 2.5%Next City: 10.8%Biased Writer Voice2.5%This article: 0.0%Next City: 4.7%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 12.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Next City: 2.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

323 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker4.3%attributed speech309writer words
0%flagged-word coverage
14 attributed words100% of attributed speech73% writer coverage
0%2.5%5.0%Biased Writer Voice-2.6 ptsWriter: 2.6%IDA’s 72nd Annual Conference & Marketplace in Toronto: 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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