NBC News35%

Andy Burnham formally appointed U.K. prime minster 35%

By NBC News36%

7/20/2026, 11:51:32 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 3 faulty reasoning types, including Recency Bias and Biased Writer Voice, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 44% saturation with 22 hits. Analysis detected 64 faulty-reasoning hits from 50 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 42.7% and a BS Rank of 35% (14,229 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 65.00% of the article peer group.

Andy Burnham was formally appointed the newest British prime minster, the seventh to take up the position in the last decade. 
NBC News’ Raf Sanchez reports on how Burnham differs from outgoing prime minster Keir Starmer and his meeting with King Charles III. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.7%NBC News: 2.1%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%NBC News: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 3.1%NBC News: 2.9%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%NBC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.9%NBC News: 1.7%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 44.0%NBC News: 5.9%NBC News: 6.4%Framing Effect44.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%NBC News: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%NBC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.7%NBC News: 1.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.8%NBC News: 1.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 10.7%NBC News: 7.0%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%NBC News: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.1%NBC News: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%NBC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.5%NBC News: 1.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.8%NBC News: 4.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 42.0%NBC News: 2.1%NBC News: 1.3%Recency Bias42.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.0%NBC News: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 4.0%NBC News: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.3%NBC News: 1.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%NBC News: 0.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.4%NBC News: 3.2%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 3.6%NBC News: 4.9%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.7%NBC News: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.4%NBC News: 1.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%NBC News: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.1%NBC News: 1.5%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.1%NBC News: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 4.1%NBC News: 1.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.0%NBC News: 1.3%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 42.0%NBC News: 4.4%NBC News: 4.1%Biased Writer Voice42.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%NBC News: 1.1%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.1%NBC News: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

50 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker44%attributed speech28writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverageNBC News’ Raf Sanchez • 22 words • 0.0% coverage
100%flagged-word coverage
22 attributed words100% of attributed speech75% writer coverage
0%37.5%75.0%Biased Writer Voice-75.0 ptsWriter: 75.0%NBC News’ Raf Sanchez: 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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