Daily Kos⁠85%

Small changes ⁠74%

By David Horsey⁠92%

7/7/2026, 12:30:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Indoctrination, Biased Writer Voice, and Pessimism Bias, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 45.3% saturation with 34 hits. Analysis detected 253 faulty-reasoning hits from 75 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 66.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠74% (5,523 of 21,165 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 73.90% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 18.5%Daily Kos: 9.0%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 10.7%David Horsey: 11.8%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion10.7%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.5%Daily Kos: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 18.7%David Horsey: 3.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Optimism Bias18.7%This article: 34.7%David Horsey: 7.5%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias34.7%This article: 30.7%David Horsey: 13.0%Daily Kos: 15.4%Negativity Bias30.7%This article: 16.0%David Horsey: 4.4%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias16.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 34.7%David Horsey: 14.8%Daily Kos: 2.2%In-Group Bias34.7%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 1.3%Daily Kos: 1.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.7%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 2.5%Daily Kos: 0.8%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 1.5%Daily Kos: 1.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.2%Daily Kos: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 2.6%Daily Kos: 5.9%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.5%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 16.0%David Horsey: 7.7%Daily Kos: 2.4%False Dilemma16.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 24.0%David Horsey: 6.4%Daily Kos: 9.7%Hasty Generalization24.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.5%Daily Kos: 0.5%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 18.7%David Horsey: 32.9%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion18.7%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 2.8%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 1.3%Daily Kos: 4.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.5%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 1.7%Daily Kos: 0.8%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 2.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.9%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 1.3%Daily Kos: 2.7%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 1.3%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 38.7%David Horsey: 26.7%Daily Kos: 23.1%Biased Writer Voice38.7%This article: 42.7%David Horsey: 16.1%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination42.7%This article: 6.7%David Horsey: 14.6%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias6.7%This article: 0.0%David Horsey: 1.3%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 45.3%David Horsey: 29.8%Daily Kos: 2.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…45.3%

75 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker6.7%attributed speech70writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageDavid Horsey • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

David Horsey

0%flagged-word coverage
5 attributed words100% of attributed speech97% writer coverage
0%25.0%50.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -48.6 ptsWriter: 48.6%David Horsey: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-45.7 ptsWriter: 45.7%David Horsey: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-41.4 ptsWriter: 41.4%David Horsey: 0.0%0.0%Politically Left Leaning B-7.1 ptsWriter: 7.1%David Horsey: 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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