KUOW⁠72%

USA Men's Soccer spotlights patriotism in Seattle ⁠38%

By Patricia Murphy⁠0% Vaughan Jones⁠0%

7/6/2026, 12:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Middle Ground, Biased Writer Voice, and Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 40% saturation with 46 hits. Analysis detected 165 faulty-reasoning hits from 115 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 44.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠38% (12,871 of 20,518 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 62.70% of the article peer group.

USA Men's Soccer returns to Seattle for a second stop, right after the 4th of July. 
As Seattle feels the joy of an international gathering, how do sports intersect with our city's politics, and our national identity, in the current political moment? 
We’ll hear from the director of the UW Global Sport Lab. 
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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: 40.0%Patricia Murphy: 9.4%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect40.0%This article: 11.3%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion11.3%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.4%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 8.7%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect8.7%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: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias0.0%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: 9.6%Patricia Murphy: 8.9%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority9.6%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: 8.7%Patricia Murphy: 0.5%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question8.7%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.7%KUOW: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%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: 22.6%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.1%Middle Ground22.6%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: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.2%KUOW: 1.0%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 22.6%Patricia Murphy: 4.7%KUOW: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice22.6%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: 20.0%Patricia Murphy: 5.6%KUOW: 1.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…20.0%

115 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker9.6%attributed speech104writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 100.0% coverageUW Global Sport Lab • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

UW Global Sport Lab

100%flagged-word coverage
11 attributed words100% of attributed speech54% writer coverage
0%12.5%25.0%Biased Writer Voice-25.0 ptsWriter: 25.0%UW Global Sport Lab: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -22.1 ptsWriter: 22.1%UW Global Sport Lab: 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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