BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Begging the Question, and Hasty Generalization, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 91 hits. Analysis detected 372 faulty-reasoning hits from 95 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 89.5% and a BS Rank of 94% (1,413 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 93.50% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 1.2%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 2.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 14.3%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 13.9%Belleville News-Democrat: 2.4%Confirmation Bias14.3%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 100.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 58.7%Belleville News-Democrat: 7.3%Framing Effect100.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 7.7%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 33.8%Belleville News-Democrat: 2.4%Halo Effect7.7%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 8.5%Belleville News-Democrat: 2.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 1.1%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 7.1%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 86.8%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 60.9%Belleville News-Democrat: 4.8%Optimism Bias86.8%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 28.6%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 60.5%Belleville News-Democrat: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias28.6%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 1.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 1.0%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 3.1%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 3.6%Belleville News-Democrat: 1.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.3%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 2.6%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 36.3%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 26.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 3.6%Appeal to Authority36.3%This article: 22.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 53.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 6.6%Appeal to Emotion22.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 50.5%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 37.4%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.8%Begging the Question50.5%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 19.8%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 6.4%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.2%Composition/Division19.8%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 1.3%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 42.9%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 23.1%Belleville News-Democrat: 3.7%Hasty Generalization42.9%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Lara Hamdan (Engagement Editor): 0.0%Belleville News-Democrat: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%

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