Photos: It's (finally) snowing in Seattle⁠89%

By KUOW Staff⁠0%

3/13/2026, 11:02:52 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Hindsight Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Anchoring Bias as the most egregious example at 62.7% saturation with 32 hits. Analysis detected 185 faulty-reasoning hits from 51 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠89% (2,386 of 21,229 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 88.80% of the article peer group.

After the warmest December on record in Washington state, coupled with record-level rain and flooding, snow finally reached the central Puget Sound region on Friday — including in Seattle, Everett, and Bremerton. 
The snow is expected to turn to rain in most locations under 500 feet in elevation by Friday evening. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 4.8%KUOW: 2.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 62.7%KUOW Staff: 2.7%KUOW: 1.3%Anchoring Bias62.7%This article: 62.7%KUOW Staff: 4.2%KUOW: 3.4%Availability Heuristic62.7%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.9%KUOW: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 62.7%KUOW Staff: 1.7%KUOW: 0.7%Hindsight Bias62.7%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 1.5%KUOW: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 37.3%KUOW Staff: 16.9%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect37.3%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 1.2%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.8%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.7%KUOW: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 37.3%KUOW Staff: 8.6%KUOW: 3.8%Optimism Bias37.3%This article: 37.3%KUOW Staff: 2.4%KUOW: 1.8%Pessimism Bias37.3%This article: 62.7%KUOW Staff: 12.0%KUOW: 8.0%Negativity Bias62.7%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 4.8%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.4%KUOW: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.4%KUOW: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 6.3%KUOW: 2.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.0%KUOW: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 3.5%KUOW: 2.7%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 2.4%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 1.5%KUOW: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.7%KUOW: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.3%KUOW: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.5%KUOW: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 1.1%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.5%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.5%KUOW: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 2.3%KUOW: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 1.2%KUOW: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 3.0%KUOW: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 7.6%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 1.8%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 2.3%KUOW: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.0%KUOW: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.4%KUOW: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 4.4%KUOW: 3.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.3%KUOW: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.8%KUOW: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.2%KUOW: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.1%KUOW: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 2.6%KUOW: 1.0%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 7.1%KUOW: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 5.5%KUOW: 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.6%KUOW: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUOW Staff: 0.6%KUOW: 1.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

51 words analyzed.

Speakers

No attributed speakers were identified in this analysis.

Loading…
Loading…
Loading…

Analysis

Hover over highlighted words in the article to view the associated bias or fallacy analysis.