Gothamist⁠76%

Early Addition: A New Jersey affordable housing bureaucrat is rocking on 'Jeopardy!' ⁠0%

By James Ramsay⁠0%

4/14/2026, 2:01:05 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Unattributed Quote, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 40.9% saturation with 72 hits. Analysis detected 434 faulty-reasoning hits from 176 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 0% and a BS Rank of ⁠0% (0 of 21,180 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 100.00% of the article peer group.

Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where it could soon be legal to hang a little solar panel out your apartment window. 
Here's what else is happening: 
• Republican Rep. 
Mike Lawler, who represents a Hudson Valley swing district, took (and returned) some harsh words at a recent town hall. 
• Since Mayor Mamdani took office, the financial service industry's New York City employment numbers have hit a record high. 
• Meet the orange cat who survived getting hit by a Long Island Rail Road train. 
• The New Jersey affordable housing tax credit administrator who's been rocking on "Jeopardy!" 
used one of his little chat segments to scold New York for not building enough units. 
• "Bees are sold by weight, like cheese or cocaine": Welcome to the Upper West Side's annual live bee hive sale. 
• Keegan Michael-Key is in every commercial. 
• It's a little disappointing to see people dry-snitching on their favorite expensive chicken restaurants. 
• And finally, shoo: 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 2.6%Gothamist: 2.7%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.8%Gothamist: 1.5%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 13.1%James Ramsay: 5.8%Gothamist: 3.6%Availability Heuristic13.1%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.1%Gothamist: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 11.4%James Ramsay: 1.1%Gothamist: 0.7%Hindsight Bias11.4%This article: 4.0%James Ramsay: 1.1%Gothamist: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias4.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 16.0%Gothamist: 8.4%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.5%Gothamist: 1.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.8%Gothamist: 1.1%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 13.1%James Ramsay: 3.5%Gothamist: 3.6%Optimism Bias13.1%This article: 8.5%James Ramsay: 1.6%Gothamist: 1.7%Pessimism Bias8.5%This article: 40.9%James Ramsay: 14.2%Gothamist: 8.5%Negativity Bias40.9%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 2.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 9.1%James Ramsay: 1.2%Gothamist: 1.0%Fundamental Attribution Error9.1%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.8%Gothamist: 2.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 3.0%Gothamist: 0.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 8.0%James Ramsay: 3.8%Gothamist: 2.1%Halo Effect8.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 2.0%Gothamist: 1.3%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.6%Gothamist: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.9%Gothamist: 1.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.6%Gothamist: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 6.7%Gothamist: 4.4%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.3%Gothamist: 1.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.8%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 4.0%James Ramsay: 9.8%Gothamist: 3.8%Hasty Generalization4.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.6%Gothamist: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 20.5%James Ramsay: 4.4%Gothamist: 6.4%Appeal to Emotion20.5%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.6%Gothamist: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 11.4%James Ramsay: 2.7%Gothamist: 2.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)11.4%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.3%Gothamist: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 4.4%Gothamist: 2.8%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 11.9%James Ramsay: 1.2%Gothamist: 1.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)11.9%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.6%Gothamist: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.4%Gothamist: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 23.3%James Ramsay: 4.2%Gothamist: 1.2%Unattributed Quote23.3%This article: 19.9%James Ramsay: 4.6%Gothamist: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection19.9%This article: 38.6%James Ramsay: 9.9%Gothamist: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice38.6%This article: 9.1%James Ramsay: 0.9%Gothamist: 1.5%Indoctrination9.1%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.5%Gothamist: 1.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.4%Gothamist: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

176 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker11%attributed speech156writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverageMike Lawler • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Mike Lawler

100%flagged-word coverage
20 attributed words100% of attributed speech95% writer coverage
0%22.5%45.0%Biased Writer Voice-43.6 ptsWriter: 43.6%Mike Lawler: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-26.3 ptsWriter: 26.3%Mike Lawler: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-22.4 ptsWriter: 22.4%Mike Lawler: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-10.3 ptsWriter: 10.3%Mike Lawler: 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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