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April 21 - KUER Mug Stop: Culture Coffee ⁠82%

By KUER 90.1⁠0%

2/22/2026, 3:19:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Optimism Bias, and Primacy Effect, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 61.9% saturation with 91 hits. Analysis detected 255 faulty-reasoning hits from 147 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 73.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠82% (3,958 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 81.90% of the article peer group.

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285 N 900 W, Salt Lake City 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 1.3%KUER: 2.8%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 7.5%KUER 90.1: 0.5%KUER: 1.3%Anchoring Bias7.5%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 4.7%KUER: 3.4%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.2%KUER: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.3%KUER: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.5%KUER: 1.9%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 34.7%KUER 90.1: 5.8%KUER: 7.4%Framing Effect34.7%This article: 12.2%KUER 90.1: 1.7%KUER: 1.3%Loss Aversion12.2%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.4%KUER: 1.2%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.3%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 17.7%KUER 90.1: 3.0%KUER: 4.4%Optimism Bias17.7%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.9%KUER: 2.4%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 2.5%KUER: 6.3%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 1.6%KUER: 2.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 7.5%KUER 90.1: 1.2%KUER: 1.9%In-Group Bias7.5%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 1.0%KUER: 0.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 2.5%KUER: 2.3%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 1.3%KUER: 1.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 17.0%KUER 90.1: 0.9%KUER: 0.3%Primacy Effect17.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.1%KUER: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 2.7%KUER: 4.7%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 7.5%KUER 90.1: 0.9%KUER: 1.7%False Dilemma7.5%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 1.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 1.2%KUER: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 2.4%KUER: 5.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.2%KUER: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 1.1%KUER: 2.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.3%KUER: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.5%KUER: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 3.9%KUER: 3.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 1.0%KUER: 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.3%KUER: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.6%KUER: 0.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.6%KUER: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 6.4%KUER: 2.2%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 7.5%KUER 90.1: 3.8%KUER: 1.6%Indoctrination7.5%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.0%KUER: 0.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER 90.1: 0.2%KUER: 0.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 61.9%KUER 90.1: 26.3%KUER: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…61.9%

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