KQED⁠61%

The Future of the Bay: SF State Students Report on a Changing Region ⁠52%

By Ernesto Aguilar⁠0%

7/5/2026, 5:00:53 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Hasty Generalization, Biased Writer Voice, and Confirmation Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 40.9% saturation with 52 hits. Analysis detected 423 faulty-reasoning hits from 127 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 51.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠52% (10,304 of 21,197 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 51.40% of the article peer group.

Want to hear what the next generation thinks about the future of our region? 
Every year, students from San Francisco State University pick up audio recording kits in search of stories that not only matter to the Bay Area but matter to them. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 22.8%Ernesto Aguilar: 16.2%CalMatters: 1.9%Confirmation Bias22.8%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 22.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 4.4%CalMatters: 3.0%Availability Heuristic22.0%This article: 22.8%Ernesto Aguilar: 5.3%CalMatters: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic22.8%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 10.2%Ernesto Aguilar: 26.2%CalMatters: 6.3%Framing Effect10.2%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 11.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 4.9%CalMatters: 3.5%Optimism Bias11.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 1.4%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 22.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 1.7%CalMatters: 6.4%Negativity Bias22.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 1.7%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 15.7%Ernesto Aguilar: 4.7%CalMatters: 1.7%In-Group Bias15.7%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 15.7%Ernesto Aguilar: 25.2%CalMatters: 2.7%Halo Effect15.7%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 18.1%Ernesto Aguilar: 1.4%CalMatters: 0.9%Recency Bias18.1%This article: 11.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 3.5%CalMatters: 0.3%Primacy Effect11.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 40.9%Ernesto Aguilar: 19.4%CalMatters: 3.1%Appeal to Authority40.9%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.8%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 37.8%Ernesto Aguilar: 14.1%CalMatters: 3.6%Hasty Generalization37.8%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 11.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 10.1%CalMatters: 5.3%Appeal to Emotion11.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 2.6%CalMatters: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.9%CalMatters: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 22.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 9.0%CalMatters: 3.1%Anecdotal22.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 7.2%CalMatters: 1.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 26.8%Ernesto Aguilar: 28.9%CalMatters: 3.1%Biased Writer Voice26.8%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 8.0%CalMatters: 1.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ernesto Aguilar: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 22.8%Ernesto Aguilar: 21.3%CalMatters: 1.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…22.8%

127 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers41%attributed speech75writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageSan Francisco State University • 29 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 0.0% coverageKQED • 23 words • 0.0% coverage
100%flagged-word coverage
29 attributed words56% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%San Francisco State University: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-45.3 ptsWriter: 45.3%San Francisco State University: 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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