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12/23/2025, 4:11:42 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 5 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Negativity Bias, and Recency Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 61 hits. Analysis detected 214 faulty-reasoning hits from 61 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 93.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠96% (892 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 95.90% of the article peer group.

Communities in Washington are beginning their recovery efforts after flooding and landslides, Governor Bob Ferguson is joining Democrats in proposing an income tax on millionaires, and people who have season passes for the Stevens Pass ski resort are angry that the resort is not offering refunds. 
It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Zaki Hamid. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.5%KUOW: 1.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 75.4%Vaughan Jones: 6.4%KUOW: 3.4%Availability Heuristic75.4%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 2.6%KUOW: 2.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 100.0%Vaughan Jones: 9.6%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect100.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.1%KUOW: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 7.4%KUOW: 2.7%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.1%KUOW: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 3.1%KUOW: 2.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 2.4%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 75.4%Vaughan Jones: 7.5%KUOW: 8.0%Negativity Bias75.4%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 7.0%KUOW: 3.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.8%KUOW: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 2.5%KUOW: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 3.9%KUOW: 1.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.6%KUOW: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 75.4%Vaughan Jones: 1.7%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias75.4%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 1.5%KUOW: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 24.6%Vaughan Jones: 1.1%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias24.6%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 1.5%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.3%KUOW: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.0%KUOW: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 1.0%KUOW: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 5.8%KUOW: 3.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 10.8%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 3.8%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.3%KUOW: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 2.2%KUOW: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.5%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.1%KUOW: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.5%KUOW: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 1.1%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 7.7%KUOW: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.2%KUOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.1%KUOW: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.2%KUOW: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 1.8%KUOW: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.1%KUOW: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 1.0%KUOW: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.3%KUOW: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Vaughan Jones: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%

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