KUOW⁠73%

Friday Evening Headlines ⁠22%

By Paige Browning⁠0%

5/15/2026, 4:45:01 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Negativity Bias, and Unattributed Quote, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 24.2% saturation with 23 hits. Analysis detected 146 faulty-reasoning hits from 95 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 35.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠22% (17,080 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 78.00% of the article peer group.

Undocumented foster kids are suing Washington state, Seattle installs public toilets ahead of the World Cup, and Starbucks lays off more employees. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 2.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 1.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 1.7%KUOW: 3.4%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 13.7%Paige Browning: 7.5%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect13.7%This article: 13.7%Paige Browning: 7.5%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion13.7%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 10.5%Paige Browning: 0.9%KUOW: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect10.5%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 1.6%KUOW: 3.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 1.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 23.2%Paige Browning: 4.6%KUOW: 8.0%Negativity Bias23.2%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.4%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 3.4%KUOW: 2.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.3%KUOW: 2.7%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 2.1%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 1.0%KUOW: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.6%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.9%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 24.2%Paige Browning: 9.4%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion24.2%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.4%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.4%KUOW: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 3.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 23.2%Paige Browning: 0.9%KUOW: 1.0%Unattributed Quote23.2%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 10.5%Paige Browning: 0.9%KUOW: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice10.5%This article: 10.5%Paige Browning: 5.7%KUOW: 1.5%Indoctrination10.5%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Paige Browning: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 24.2%Paige Browning: 22.0%KUOW: 1.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…24.2%

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