Daily Kos⁠84%

Undercover bigots ⁠43%

By Clay Jones⁠0%

7/9/2026, 10:59:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Pessimism Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Loss Aversion, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 68.4% saturation with 52 hits. Analysis detected 272 faulty-reasoning hits from 76 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 46.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠43% (12,499 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 57.10% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 7.9%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 31.6%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 8.9%Framing Effect31.6%This article: 34.2%Clay Jones: 11.8%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion34.2%This article: 6.6%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.3%Status Quo Bias6.6%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 42.1%Clay Jones: 11.8%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias42.1%This article: 34.2%Clay Jones: 1.3%Daily Kos: 15.4%Negativity Bias34.2%This article: 15.8%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias15.8%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 34.2%Clay Jones: 7.9%Daily Kos: 2.1%In-Group Bias34.2%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 3.3%Daily Kos: 1.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.8%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.5%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 5.8%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 15.8%Clay Jones: 7.9%Daily Kos: 2.3%False Dilemma15.8%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 9.8%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.5%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 9.2%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 3.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.5%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 10.5%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.8%Burden of Proof10.5%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 2.0%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 2.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 39.5%Clay Jones: 1.3%Daily Kos: 23.1%Biased Writer Voice39.5%This article: 25.0%Clay Jones: 21.1%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination25.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 7.9%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Clay Jones: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 68.4%Clay Jones: 5.3%Daily Kos: 2.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…68.4%

76 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker6.6%attributed speech71writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageClay Jones • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 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

Clay Jones

0%flagged-word coverage
5 attributed words100% of attributed speech97% writer coverage
0%37.5%75.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -73.2 ptsWriter: 73.2%Clay Jones: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-42.3 ptsWriter: 42.3%Clay Jones: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-26.8 ptsWriter: 26.8%Clay Jones: 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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