BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Ad Hominem, and Appeal to Authority, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 27.5% saturation with 66 hits. Analysis detected 383 faulty-reasoning hits from 240 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 38.1% and a BS Rank of 39% (17,227 of 28,112 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 61.30% of the article peer group.

The Minnesota Department of Health is looking into an outbreak of Salmonella Javiana connected with jalapeños used at Mexican restaurants , including Chipotle, between mid-June and mid-July. 
Finally, it’s a good idea to just fill up on chips and salsa . 
Republican candidate for governor Mike Lindell , who’s run into trouble recently for not being registered to vote in Minnesota and handing out pillows at a parade, has stepped down as CEO of MyPillow to signal his dedication to the gubernatorial race . 
But new questions have arisen about his residency in Minnesota  questions brought up by the chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party . 
Fresh off a World Cup appearance that was, well, initially promising before they crashed and burned against Belgium , the U.S. 
Men’s National Team will come to Allianz Field to face Canada in a friendly on Tuesday, Oct. 
6 . 
In seven games at the St. 
Paul stadium, the men’s and women’s teams have not allowed a goal . 
We’ll see if they can keep up that streak against Canadian attacker and former Loon Tani Oluwaseyi. 
A pair of festivals celebrating the African diaspora are happening this weekend : Let’s Gidi Fest and IgboFest . 
Do yourself a favor and go anywhere you can check out Afrobeat and scope some jollof rice . 
There are also more African-themed festivals coming later in the summer and the fall, too. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.5%MinnPost: 1.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.5%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 7.5%Steve McPherson: 2.3%MinnPost: 2.0%Availability Heuristic7.5%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 7.5%Steve McPherson: 5.2%MinnPost: 4.3%Framing Effect7.5%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 1.9%MinnPost: 0.7%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 5.8%Steve McPherson: 0.4%MinnPost: 0.6%Status Quo Bias5.8%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.7%MinnPost: 0.3%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 19.2%Steve McPherson: 5.9%MinnPost: 2.7%Optimism Bias19.2%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.1%MinnPost: 1.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 27.5%Steve McPherson: 7.7%MinnPost: 4.9%Negativity Bias27.5%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.9%MinnPost: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.5%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 7.5%Steve McPherson: 0.5%MinnPost: 0.9%In-Group Bias7.5%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.6%MinnPost: 1.7%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 1.3%MinnPost: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 8.8%Steve McPherson: 0.6%MinnPost: 0.7%Recency Bias8.8%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.2%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 17.9%Steve McPherson: 2.6%MinnPost: 0.3%Ad Hominem17.9%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 9.6%Steve McPherson: 1.9%MinnPost: 2.9%Appeal to Authority9.6%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 1.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.7%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 8.8%Steve McPherson: 0.6%MinnPost: 3.1%Hasty Generalization8.8%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 1.4%MinnPost: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 7.5%Steve McPherson: 3.0%MinnPost: 3.6%Appeal to Emotion7.5%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.4%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.2%MinnPost: 1.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 1.6%MinnPost: 1.7%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 5.8%Steve McPherson: 0.9%MinnPost: 0.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)5.8%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 7.1%Steve McPherson: 1.5%MinnPost: 0.1%Middle Ground7.1%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.2%MinnPost: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.5%MinnPost: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 9.6%Steve McPherson: 1.0%MinnPost: 0.8%Unattributed Quote9.6%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.3%MinnPost: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 2.1%Steve McPherson: 6.0%MinnPost: 3.6%Biased Writer Voice2.1%This article: 7.5%Steve McPherson: 2.0%MinnPost: 1.5%Indoctrination7.5%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 1.3%MinnPost: 0.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 0.0%MinnPost: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve McPherson: 1.3%MinnPost: 0.8%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

240 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers39%attributed speech147writer words
100%flagged-word coverage
23 attributed words25% of attributed speech70% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Minnesota Republican Party: 100.0%100.0%Indoctrination-12.2 ptsWriter: 12.2%Minnesota Republican Party: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-3.4 ptsWriter: 3.4%Minnesota Republican Party: 0.0%0.0%

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

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