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Soundside's Weekend Warmup: Books, Books, and MORE BOOKS! ⁠20%

By Jason Burrows⁠0%

5/21/2026, 1:54:24 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Pessimism Bias, and Optimism Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 44.1% saturation with 56 hits. Analysis detected 200 faulty-reasoning hits from 127 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 34.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠20% (17,650 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 80.60% of the article peer group.

What a week, right? 
But hey… We’ve got a long weekend ahead of us, and since Memorial Day is the unofficial start of Summer, it’s exciting to see that there’s… rain in the forecast for Monday. 
Well, either way - rain or shine, Soundside Producer Jason Megatron Burrows is here with a ton of fun stuff to do this weekend! 
LINKS: 
Inaugural Ballard Book Crawl 
Lost the Plot Mobile Books 
Bremerton by the Book 
Page 42 Bookstore Smut & Sips 
Book Recommendations thanks to @beckybooksandbeads! 
Trailhead Direct - Begins Saturday! 
Whidbey Ren Faire 
Festival | Northwest Folklife 
Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! 
If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/soundsidenotes 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.4%KUOW: 2.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 5.7%KUOW: 1.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 2.3%KUOW: 3.4%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.9%KUOW: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 44.1%Jason Burrows: 17.6%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect44.1%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 2.1%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 5.3%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 18.9%Jason Burrows: 14.5%KUOW: 3.8%Optimism Bias18.9%This article: 25.2%Jason Burrows: 5.5%KUOW: 1.8%Pessimism Bias25.2%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.8%KUOW: 8.0%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 10.2%Jason Burrows: 4.8%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias10.2%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 3.9%Jason Burrows: 27.7%KUOW: 2.0%In-Group Bias3.9%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 1.5%KUOW: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 29.1%Jason Burrows: 16.0%KUOW: 2.7%Halo Effect29.1%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 4.5%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 2.9%KUOW: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 6.6%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 18.9%Jason Burrows: 3.6%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma18.9%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.4%KUOW: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 3.7%KUOW: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 14.4%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.7%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 1.9%KUOW: 3.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.4%KUOW: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 1.0%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 1.5%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jason Burrows: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 7.1%Jason Burrows: 3.6%KUOW: 1.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…7.1%

127 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers23%attributed speech98writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 32 words • 0.0% coverageJason Megatron Burrows • 24 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverage@beckybooksandbeads • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverage
100%flagged-word coverage
24 attributed words83% of attributed speech55% writer coverage
0%5.0%10.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -9.2 ptsWriter: 9.2%Jason Megatron Burrows: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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