KUOW⁠73%

Meet the local lei makers nurturing a Native Hawaiian tradition⁠89%

By Jeannie Yandel⁠0% Katie Campbell⁠0% Dyer Oxley⁠0%

12/24/2025, 3:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Availability Heuristic, and Anecdotal, with In-Group Bias as the most egregious example at 27.4% saturation with 40 hits. Analysis detected 379 faulty-reasoning hits from 146 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 81.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠89% (2,608 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 88.10% of the article peer group.

More and more Native Hawaiians are moving to the Pacific Northwest. 
In fact, Washington state has the third largest number of Kanaka Maoli, or Native Hawaiians, outside of Hawaii and California. 
As they move here, people are bringing their beloved customs and traditions with them. 
Like the artform of making lei, which are garlands made using all kinds of materials including flowers, nuts, clay and feathers. 
Seattle Times business reporter Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton belongs to this community and was curious about how cultural traditions and customs have evolved in the Seattle area. 
Her article, Hawaiian lei makers blossom in Seattle area, but challenges grow, dives into this issue. 
Boyanton spoke with Meet Me Here host Jeannie Yandel about what she learned from local lei-makers for this story, and about the history of lei in Hawaii. 
This interview originally ran on KUOW's daily news podcast, Seattle Now. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 21.2%Jeannie Yandel: 18.7%KUOW: 1.3%Anchoring Bias21.2%This article: 21.9%Jeannie Yandel: 12.3%KUOW: 3.4%Availability Heuristic21.9%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 17.8%Jeannie Yandel: 11.9%KUOW: 2.6%Confirmation Bias17.8%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 11.0%Jeannie Yandel: 15.5%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect11.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 7.5%Jeannie Yandel: 14.8%KUOW: 2.7%Halo Effect7.5%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 27.4%Jeannie Yandel: 36.1%KUOW: 2.0%In-Group Bias27.4%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 11.0%Jeannie Yandel: 7.3%KUOW: 8.0%Negativity Bias11.0%This article: 17.1%Jeannie Yandel: 9.4%KUOW: 3.8%Optimism Bias17.1%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 1.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 18.5%Jeannie Yandel: 14.8%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias18.5%This article: 13.7%Jeannie Yandel: 9.4%KUOW: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic13.7%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 5.9%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 21.9%Jeannie Yandel: 13.5%KUOW: 3.3%Anecdotal21.9%This article: 26.0%Jeannie Yandel: 33.8%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority26.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 6.8%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 9.6%Jeannie Yandel: 3.2%KUOW: 0.8%Bandwagon9.6%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 9.6%Jeannie Yandel: 8.0%KUOW: 0.2%Composition/Division9.6%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 17.8%Jeannie Yandel: 14.4%KUOW: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy17.8%This article: 7.5%Jeannie Yandel: 7.5%KUOW: 4.1%Hasty Generalization7.5%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeannie Yandel: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%

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