UW Medicine is using actors to train doctors ⁠23%

By Patricia Murphy⁠0%

5/28/2026, 12:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Loss Aversion, Appeal to Emotion, and Indoctrination, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 54.5% saturation with 55 hits. Analysis detected 221 faulty-reasoning hits from 101 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 36.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠23% (15,748 of 20,407 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 77.20% of the article peer group.

Practicing medicine is not an exact science. 
It takes knowledge, but also bedside manner. 
At UW Medicine, neurology students train for both using actors from UW’s Drama Department. 
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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: 6.9%Patricia Murphy: 1.9%KUOW: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias6.9%This article: 12.9%Patricia Murphy: 9.4%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect12.9%This article: 22.8%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion22.8%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.4%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%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: 9.9%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias9.9%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: 12.9%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias12.9%This article: 6.9%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 0.4%Primacy Effect6.9%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: 9.9%Patricia Murphy: 8.9%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority9.9%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: 6.9%Patricia Murphy: 7.0%KUOW: 4.1%Hasty Generalization6.9%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.4%KUOW: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 12.9%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 0.8%Bandwagon12.9%This article: 22.8%Patricia Murphy: 4.3%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion22.8%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.5%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 9.9%Patricia Murphy: 1.7%KUOW: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)9.9%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: 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: 6.9%Patricia Murphy: 4.7%KUOW: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice6.9%This article: 22.8%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.5%Indoctrination22.8%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: 54.5%Patricia Murphy: 5.6%KUOW: 1.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…54.5%

101 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker22%attributed speech79writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
UW Medicine • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageUW Medicine • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverage
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UW Medicine

0%flagged-word coverage
22 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%35.0%70.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -69.6 ptsWriter: 69.6%UW Medicine: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-29.1 ptsWriter: 29.1%UW Medicine: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-8.9 ptsWriter: 8.9%UW Medicine: 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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