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Extra Extra: Why is everyone Googling Cory Booker?⁠0%

By James Ramsay⁠0%

12/19/2025, 12:01:01 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Confirmation Bias, and Pessimism Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 36.6% saturation with 64 hits. Analysis detected 323 faulty-reasoning hits from 175 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 0% and a BS Rank of ⁠0% (0 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 100.00% of the article peer group.

Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where the Trump administration keeps making empty threats to pull transit funding. 
Here's what else is happening: 
- Flights at local airports have been delayed today because of this windy weather. 
- New York City did not clear the ice from all the bus stops and park walkways like it's supposed to. 
- Drivers of massive trucks coming off the Williamsburg Bridge into Manhattan keep making illegal detours up Clinton Street on the Lower East Side. 
- The Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens will be turned into an official "fan zone" for next summer's World Cup. 
- A lot of people Googled Cory Booker this year. 
- Pete Davidson and his girlfriend had their baby. 
- Uber Eats data indicates that food in bowls remained popular in 2025. 
- Perhaps in 2026, marriage will see some more appreciation. 
And finally, the quills stay put: 
"Rico snacking is the best sound! 
Contrary to popular belief, a porcupine cannot shoot its spines and quills." — Cincinnati Zoo 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 7.4%James Ramsay: 1.8%Gothamist: 1.5%Anchoring Bias7.4%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 5.8%Gothamist: 3.6%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 19.4%James Ramsay: 2.6%Gothamist: 2.7%Confirmation Bias19.4%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 22.9%James Ramsay: 16.0%Gothamist: 8.4%Framing Effect22.9%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.2%Gothamist: 1.0%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 3.4%James Ramsay: 3.8%Gothamist: 2.1%Halo Effect3.4%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.1%Gothamist: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.8%Gothamist: 2.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.5%Gothamist: 1.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 36.6%James Ramsay: 14.2%Gothamist: 8.5%Negativity Bias36.6%This article: 5.7%James Ramsay: 3.5%Gothamist: 3.6%Optimism Bias5.7%This article: 13.7%James Ramsay: 3.0%Gothamist: 0.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias13.7%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.1%Gothamist: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 16.6%James Ramsay: 1.6%Gothamist: 1.7%Pessimism Bias16.6%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.6%Gothamist: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 2.0%Gothamist: 1.3%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.1%Gothamist: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 2.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%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: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.9%Gothamist: 1.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.2%Gothamist: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 3.4%James Ramsay: 4.4%Gothamist: 2.8%Anecdotal3.4%This article: 16.0%James Ramsay: 6.7%Gothamist: 4.4%Appeal to Authority16.0%This article: 3.4%James Ramsay: 4.4%Gothamist: 6.4%Appeal to Emotion3.4%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.6%Gothamist: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%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%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.3%Gothamist: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.3%Gothamist: 1.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 1.4%Gothamist: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 13.7%James Ramsay: 9.8%Gothamist: 3.8%Hasty Generalization13.7%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 5.7%James Ramsay: 0.6%Gothamist: 0.1%Personal Incredulity5.7%This article: 8.0%James Ramsay: 2.7%Gothamist: 2.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)8.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.6%Gothamist: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.8%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 8.6%James Ramsay: 0.6%Gothamist: 0.2%Straw Man8.6%This article: 0.0%James Ramsay: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%

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