Daily Kos⁠84%

The visitor ⁠91%

By Tom Tomorrow⁠0%

7/6/2026, 5:30:00 AM

Topics: Cartoon

BS Summary: This article contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Loss Aversion, and Pessimism Bias, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 56.9% saturation with 74 hits. Analysis detected 493 faulty-reasoning hits from 130 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 84.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠91% (2,081 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 90.50% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 8.5%Tom Tomorrow: 2.1%Daily Kos: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic8.5%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 40.8%Tom Tomorrow: 11.2%Daily Kos: 8.9%Framing Effect40.8%This article: 25.4%Tom Tomorrow: 7.9%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion25.4%This article: 3.8%Tom Tomorrow: 1.0%Daily Kos: 0.3%Status Quo Bias3.8%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 24.6%Tom Tomorrow: 9.6%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias24.6%This article: 13.8%Tom Tomorrow: 3.5%Daily Kos: 15.4%Negativity Bias13.8%This article: 19.2%Tom Tomorrow: 4.8%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias19.2%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 20.0%Tom Tomorrow: 12.3%Daily Kos: 2.1%In-Group Bias20.0%This article: 9.2%Tom Tomorrow: 2.3%Daily Kos: 1.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias9.2%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.8%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.5%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 13.8%Tom Tomorrow: 3.5%Daily Kos: 0.4%Primacy Effect13.8%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 5.8%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 9.2%Tom Tomorrow: 4.6%Daily Kos: 2.3%False Dilemma9.2%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 8.5%Tom Tomorrow: 4.2%Daily Kos: 9.8%Hasty Generalization8.5%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.5%Red Herring0.0%This article: 13.8%Tom Tomorrow: 3.5%Daily Kos: 0.6%Bandwagon13.8%This article: 8.5%Tom Tomorrow: 15.8%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion8.5%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 10.8%Tom Tomorrow: 2.7%Daily Kos: 3.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)10.8%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.5%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.8%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 2.0%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 13.1%Tom Tomorrow: 3.3%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)13.1%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 13.8%Tom Tomorrow: 3.5%Daily Kos: 2.8%Unattributed Quote13.8%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 23.1%Tom Tomorrow: 20.8%Daily Kos: 23.1%Biased Writer Voice23.1%This article: 19.2%Tom Tomorrow: 12.3%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination19.2%This article: 23.1%Tom Tomorrow: 10.0%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias23.1%This article: 0.0%Tom Tomorrow: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 56.9%Tom Tomorrow: 56.5%Daily Kos: 2.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…56.9%

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