How to prepare when Japan is under an earthquake advisory ⁠93%

By Jessica Speed⁠0%

4/21/2026, 9:17:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Biased Writer Voice, and Pessimism Bias, with Loss Aversion as the most egregious example at 76.2% saturation with 64 hits. Analysis detected 336 faulty-reasoning hits from 84 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 88.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠93% (1,593 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 92.70% of the article peer group.

With authorities urging residents across a large swath of Japan, from Hokkaido to Chiba Prefecture, to review their disaster readiness following Monday's magnitude 7.7 earthquake, and with the issuance of a 'subsequent earthquake advisory,' households need to be ready for any potential large-scale quake. 
The following are tips and recommendations on how to prepare. 
Authorities are urging people to be ready to evacuate at any time, with the following checklist to keep in mind: 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 1.4%The Japan Times: 3.5%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 1.1%The Japan Times: 1.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 3.9%The Japan Times: 4.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 1.8%The Japan Times: 1.3%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.7%The Japan Times: 2.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 35.7%Jessica Speed: 6.5%The Japan Times: 14.4%Framing Effect35.7%This article: 76.2%Jessica Speed: 1.2%The Japan Times: 0.9%Loss Aversion76.2%This article: 11.9%Jessica Speed: 1.1%The Japan Times: 1.3%Status Quo Bias11.9%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 2.9%The Japan Times: 4.7%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 52.4%Jessica Speed: 2.8%The Japan Times: 3.3%Pessimism Bias52.4%This article: 23.8%Jessica Speed: 5.7%The Japan Times: 11.6%Negativity Bias23.8%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.8%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 1.1%The Japan Times: 1.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.4%The Japan Times: 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.5%The Japan Times: 1.5%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 1.4%The Japan Times: 2.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.5%The Japan Times: 0.9%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 76.2%Jessica Speed: 4.8%The Japan Times: 5.5%Appeal to Authority76.2%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.5%The Japan Times: 1.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.6%The Japan Times: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 2.7%The Japan Times: 4.5%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.1%The Japan Times: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.1%The Japan Times: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 1.6%The Japan Times: 3.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.1%The Japan Times: 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 2.9%The Japan Times: 4.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.4%The Japan Times: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.3%The Japan Times: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 1.3%The Japan Times: 1.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 2.0%The Japan Times: 3.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 1.4%The Japan Times: 4.6%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 23.8%Jessica Speed: 0.7%The Japan Times: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection23.8%This article: 76.2%Jessica Speed: 4.3%The Japan Times: 9.0%Biased Writer Voice76.2%This article: 23.8%Jessica Speed: 3.8%The Japan Times: 1.6%Indoctrination23.8%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.1%The Japan Times: 0.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jessica Speed: 1.0%The Japan Times: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

84 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker76%attributed speech20writer words
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Writer's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageorganization • 44 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageorganization • 20 words • 100.0% coverage
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64 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%organization: 100.0%100.0%Indoctrination-100.0 ptsWriter: 100.0%organization: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection+31.3 ptsWriter: 0.0%organization: 31.3%31.3%

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

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Analysis

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