Laurelhurst, Seattle Children's agree to change helicopter landing policy ⁠60%

By Patricia Murphy⁠0% Jennie Cecil Moore⁠0%

5/11/2026, 12:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 5 faulty reasoning types, including Status Quo Bias, Recency Bias, and Biased Writer Voice, with Post Hoc (False Cause) as the most egregious example at 41.6% saturation with 32 hits. Analysis detected 100 faulty-reasoning hits from 77 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 55.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠60% (8,885 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 59.40% of the article peer group.

For decades, helicopters that transport kids to Seattle Children’s Hospital were required to land a mile away in some cases and make the rest of the journey by ambulance. 
That’s because some residents of the Laurelhurst neighborhood were concerned about noise. 
After a social media post reignited the controversy, the hospital and the neighborhood association have agreed to revisit the policy. 
We talk with KUOW reporter Anna Boiko-Weyrauch. 
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: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 9.4%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 37.7%Patricia Murphy: 1.4%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias37.7%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%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: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 6.8%KUOW: 8.0%Negativity Bias0.0%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: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.9%KUOW: 2.7%Halo Effect0.0%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: 26.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias26.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%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: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma0.0%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: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.3%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.5%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 41.6%Patricia Murphy: 1.7%KUOW: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)41.6%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: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.2%KUOW: 3.3%Anecdotal0.0%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: 9.1%Patricia Murphy: 2.2%KUOW: 1.0%Unattributed Quote9.1%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 15.6%Patricia Murphy: 4.7%KUOW: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice15.6%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.5%Indoctrination0.0%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: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 5.6%KUOW: 1.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

77 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker9.1%attributed speech70writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 29 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageKUOW reporter Anna Boiko-Weyrauch • 7 words • 100.0% coverage
100%flagged-word coverage
7 attributed words100% of attributed speech87% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%KUOW reporter Anna Boiko-Weyrauch: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-17.1 ptsWriter: 17.1%KUOW reporter Anna Boiko-Weyrauch: 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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