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Early Addition: What if Americans had slightly smaller pickup trucks? 27%

By James Ramsay0%

6/29/2026, 7:36:13 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Hindsight Bias, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Recency Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 20.3% saturation with 35 hits. Analysis detected 234 faulty-reasoning hits from 172 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 38.4% and a BS Rank of 27% (16,047 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 73.30% of the article peer group.

Good Monday morning in New York City, where it could be extremely hot during Taylor Swift's wedding. 
Here's what else is happening: 
Adult lap swim is returning to select public pools on weekday mornings. 
Some artsy if less-than-playable ping-pong tables have landed on Beach 67 in the Rockaways. 
Sen. 
Chuck Schumer was booed at the Pride March. 
Betting app companies in New York lost a total of $48 million during the week of Games 3, 4 and 5 of the NBA Finals. 
The NYPD said it seized $150 million worth of counterfeit watches, jewelry and Labubus in a Chinatown raid last week. 
Picking up where the Trump administration left off, the city is still trying to figure out how to deal with the <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-bracing-for-a-heat-wave-amid-july-4th-world-cup-and-maybe-taylor-swifts-wedding" rel="noopener" target="_blank">heat wave</a>. 
Pickup trucks have gotten massive and deadly. 
Jeff Bezos is wondering: Would Americans buy ones that are slightly smaller? 
There are so many great things to eat on a beach. 
And finally, it's summer: 
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: 0.0%James Ramsay: 5.8%Gothamist: 3.6%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.1%Gothamist: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 15.1%James Ramsay: 1.1%Gothamist: 0.7%Hindsight Bias15.1%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.1%Gothamist: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 12.8%James Ramsay: 16.0%Gothamist: 8.4%Framing Effect12.8%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: 6.4%James Ramsay: 3.5%Gothamist: 3.6%Optimism Bias6.4%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.6%Gothamist: 1.7%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 8.7%James Ramsay: 14.2%Gothamist: 8.5%Negativity Bias8.7%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 2.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.2%Gothamist: 1.0%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%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: 7.0%James Ramsay: 3.8%Gothamist: 2.1%Halo Effect7.0%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: 14.5%James Ramsay: 2.0%Gothamist: 1.3%Recency Bias14.5%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: 11.6%James Ramsay: 6.7%Gothamist: 4.4%Appeal to Authority11.6%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: 6.4%James Ramsay: 9.8%Gothamist: 3.8%Hasty Generalization6.4%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: 0.0%James Ramsay: 4.4%Gothamist: 6.4%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.6%Gothamist: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 15.1%James Ramsay: 2.7%Gothamist: 2.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)15.1%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: 0.1%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: 4.1%James Ramsay: 1.2%Gothamist: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)4.1%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: 7.0%James Ramsay: 4.2%Gothamist: 1.2%Unattributed Quote7.0%This article: 7.0%James Ramsay: 4.6%Gothamist: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection7.0%This article: 20.3%James Ramsay: 9.9%Gothamist: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice20.3%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.9%Gothamist: 1.5%Indoctrination0.0%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%

172 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers23%attributed speech132writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageChuck Schumer • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageNYPD • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageJeff Bezos • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Jeff Bezos

100%flagged-word coverage
12 attributed words30% of attributed speech73% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Jeff Bezos: 100.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Jeff Bezos: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-26.5 ptsWriter: 26.5%Jeff Bezos: 0.0%0.0%

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

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