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7/12/2026, 6:02:16 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Negativity Bias, and Appeal to Authority, with Post Hoc (False Cause) as the most egregious example at 25% saturation with 104 hits. Analysis detected 471 faulty-reasoning hits from 416 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 10.8% and a BS Rank of 2% (21,553 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 98.50% of the article peer group.

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Senator Lindsey Graham has died on Saturday evening. 
U.S. forces conducted their third round of strikes on Iran this week, this time in retaliation for an attack on a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz, the Pentagon said. 
At least two people were killed and several more wounded in a shooting Saturday evening at a street festival in Toronto, Canada, authorities said. 
The subpoenas were issued after the New York Times reported on alleged security concerns with the new Qatari-gifted Air Force One. 
As the agriculture industry in Louisiana contends with major energy cost hikes brought on by the Iran war, some farmers are unsure if their businesses will survive. 
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said the outbreak is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak recorded on the continent. 
New Jersey is one of more than a dozen states that are working to collect, remove and destroy all of their aqueous film-forming foam. 
The Seattle Seahawks are being sold to the Khosla family in accordance with the wishes of late team owner Paul Allen, the team announced on Saturday. 
More than 200 people at Camp Taum Sauk in Missouri, were rescued after 6 to 12 inches of rain fell along the Taum Sauk Reservoir. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 2.2%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 10.8%CBS Miami: 2.5%Availability Heuristic10.8%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 1.7%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 6.1%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 5.8%CBS Miami: 0.6%Status Quo Bias5.8%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 1.9%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 6.5%CBS Miami: 1.1%Pessimism Bias6.5%This article: 13.7%CBS Miami: 6.7%Negativity Bias13.7%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.9%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 1.6%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 7.7%CBS Miami: 1.1%Recency Bias7.7%This article: 6.3%CBS Miami: 0.3%Primacy Effect6.3%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.8%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 11.1%CBS Miami: 4.3%Appeal to Authority11.1%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 2.5%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 4.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 25.0%CBS Miami: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)25.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 1.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 19.5%CBS Miami: 2.0%Unattributed Quote19.5%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 7.0%CBS Miami: 1.5%Biased Writer Voice7.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBS Miami: 0.8%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

416 words analyzed.

Speakers

5speakers57%attributed speech180writer words
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Selected voice

Seattle Seahawks

100%flagged-word coverage
26 attributed words11% of attributed speech84% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+69.4 ptsWriter: 30.6%Seattle Seahawks: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-11.7 ptsWriter: 11.7%Seattle Seahawks: 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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