BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Loss Aversion, Pessimism Bias, and Slippery Slope, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 28.9% saturation with 22 hits. Analysis detected 111 faulty-reasoning hits from 76 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 66.8% and a BS Rank of 75% (5,560 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 74.60% of the article peer group.

Immigrants began making plans to sell or rent their homes, secure bank accounts and figure out thorny issues like child custody arrangements. 
Business owners started calculating how many days they can continue to employ workers whose legal status is set to expire. 
And nursing home leaders warned they would have fewer beds to offer if health aides are forced to leave the country. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 1.5%The Washington Post: 3.8%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 3.8%The Washington Post: 4.9%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 17.1%Maria Sacchetti: 39.1%The Washington Post: 21.5%Framing Effect17.1%This article: 27.6%Maria Sacchetti: 6.3%The Washington Post: 0.8%Loss Aversion27.6%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.9%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 3.6%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 27.6%Maria Sacchetti: 6.1%The Washington Post: 3.6%Pessimism Bias27.6%This article: 17.1%Maria Sacchetti: 23.5%The Washington Post: 18.5%Negativity Bias17.1%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 3.2%The Washington Post: 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.0%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.9%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 5.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.5%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 27.6%Maria Sacchetti: 6.1%The Washington Post: 1.0%Slippery Slope27.6%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 3.2%The Washington Post: 5.9%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.5%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 8.4%The Washington Post: 6.3%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.0%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 4.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.9%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 2.9%The Washington Post: 4.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.5%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 28.9%Maria Sacchetti: 30.4%The Washington Post: 15.2%Biased Writer Voice28.9%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.0%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 7.8%The Washington Post: 3.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 19.0%The Washington Post: 1.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Maria Sacchetti: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

76 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker28%attributed speech55writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coveragenursing home leaders • 21 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

nursing home leaders

100%flagged-word coverage
21 attributed words100% of attributed speech64% writer coverage
0%20.0%40.0%Biased Writer Voice-40.0 ptsWriter: 40.0%nursing home leaders: 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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