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BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Optimism Bias, and Framing Effect, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 95.8% saturation with 115 hits. Analysis detected 289 faulty-reasoning hits from 120 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 89.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠94% (1,346 of 21,060 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 93.60% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.8%The Washington Post: 3.8%Confirmation Bias0.8%This article: 3.3%The Washington Post: 1.3%Anchoring Bias3.3%This article: 2.5%The Washington Post: 4.9%Availability Heuristic2.5%This article: 5.8%The Washington Post: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic5.8%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 14.2%The Washington Post: 21.5%Framing Effect14.2%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.8%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.9%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 32.5%The Washington Post: 3.6%Optimism Bias32.5%This article: 6.7%The Washington Post: 3.6%Pessimism Bias6.7%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 18.5%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 36.7%The Washington Post: 2.1%Halo Effect36.7%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 3.3%The Washington Post: 2.4%Recency Bias3.3%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.0%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.9%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 9.2%The Washington Post: 5.2%Appeal to Authority9.2%This article: 10.8%The Washington Post: 1.5%False Dilemma10.8%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 5.8%The Washington Post: 5.9%Hasty Generalization5.8%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 4.2%The Washington Post: 0.5%Bandwagon4.2%This article: 8.3%The Washington Post: 6.3%Appeal to Emotion8.3%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.0%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 4.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.9%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 4.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.5%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.8%The Washington Post: 15.2%Biased Writer Voice0.8%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.0%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 3.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 95.8%The Washington Post: 1.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…95.8%

120 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker1.7%attributed speech118writer words
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Selected voice

Comscore

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2 attributed words100% of attributed speech99% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +4.2 ptsWriter: 95.8%Comscore: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-0.8 ptsWriter: 0.8%Comscore: 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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