KUOW⁠73%

In loving memory of Seattle historian Paul Dorpat ⁠37%

By Patricia Murphy⁠0% Brooklyn Jamerson-Flowers⁠0%

6/8/2026, 12:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Biased Writer Voice, and Primacy Effect, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 52.3% saturation with 56 hits. Analysis detected 246 faulty-reasoning hits from 107 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 43.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠37% (13,890 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 63.50% of the article peer group.

Seattle’s story is rich and historian Paul Dorpat was a big part of sharing it. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.3%KUOW: 2.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.8%KUOW: 1.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 5.6%KUOW: 3.4%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.9%KUOW: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.4%KUOW: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.9%KUOW: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 29.0%Patricia Murphy: 9.4%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect29.0%This article: 12.1%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion12.1%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.4%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 9.3%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect9.3%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 5.5%KUOW: 3.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.9%KUOW: 1.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 7.5%Patricia Murphy: 6.8%KUOW: 8.0%Negativity Bias7.5%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.6%KUOW: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.3%KUOW: 2.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.7%KUOW: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 14.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.9%KUOW: 2.7%Halo Effect14.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 19.6%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 0.4%Primacy Effect19.6%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 8.9%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 9.3%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma9.3%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.7%KUOW: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.5%KUOW: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 7.0%KUOW: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.4%KUOW: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 12.1%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 0.8%Bandwagon12.1%This article: 19.6%Patricia Murphy: 4.3%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion19.6%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.5%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.7%KUOW: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.3%KUOW: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.3%KUOW: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 14.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.2%KUOW: 3.3%Anecdotal14.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.4%KUOW: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.1%KUOW: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.1%KUOW: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.2%KUOW: 1.0%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 21.5%Patricia Murphy: 4.7%KUOW: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice21.5%This article: 9.3%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.5%Indoctrination9.3%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 52.3%Patricia Murphy: 5.6%KUOW: 1.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…52.3%

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