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7/23/2026, 6:54:10 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Halo Effect, and Biased Writer Voice, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 72% saturation with 113 hits. Analysis detected 323 faulty-reasoning hits from 157 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 67.7% and a BS Rank of 76% (5,312 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 75.70% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.1%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 1.3%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 53.5%Ideastream Public Media: 3.4%Framing Effect53.5%This article: 1.9%Ideastream Public Media: 0.8%Loss Aversion1.9%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 3.2%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 1.3%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.2%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 11.5%Ideastream Public Media: 0.9%In-Group Bias11.5%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 24.8%Ideastream Public Media: 9.0%Halo Effect24.8%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.3%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.2%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.2%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 13.4%Ideastream Public Media: 2.2%Appeal to Authority13.4%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.6%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.8%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 11.5%Ideastream Public Media: 0.3%Bandwagon11.5%This article: 1.9%Ideastream Public Media: 2.1%Appeal to Emotion1.9%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.4%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.1%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.4%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.2%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.2%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 15.3%Ideastream Public Media: 5.4%Biased Writer Voice15.3%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 4.2%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ideastream Public Media: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 72.0%Ideastream Public Media: 7.9%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…72.0%

157 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers96%attributed speech6writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageIdeastream Public Media Education • 18 words • 100.0% coverageIdeastream Public Media Education • 27 words • 100.0% coverageIdeastream Public Media Education • 21 words • 100.0% coverageIdeastream Public Media Education • 3 words • 100.0% coverageIdeastream Public Media Education • 10 words • 0.0% coverageIdeastream Public Media Education • 7 words • 0.0% coverageIdeastream Public Media Education • 9 words • 100.0% coverageIdeastream Public Media Education • 21 words • 100.0% coverageIdeastream Public Media Education • 10 words • 0.0% coverageIdeastream Public Media Education • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWVIZ • 13 words • 0.0% coverageIdeastream Public Media Education • 8 words • 100.0% coverage
78%flagged-word coverage
138 attributed words91% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-87.0 ptsWriter: 100.0%Ideastream Public Media Education: 13.0%13.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -22.5 ptsWriter: 100.0%Ideastream Public Media Education: 77.5%77.5%

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

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Analysis

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