Weekend Listen: A crumbling levee in Snohomish County needs repairs, how our national wildland fire chief is thinking about fire season, and Brazilian birds are migrating to Tacoma ⁠32%

By Patricia Murphy⁠0%

5/9/2026, 12:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Indoctrination, Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, and Optimism Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 22.8% saturation with 38 hits. Analysis detected 202 faulty-reasoning hits from 167 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 41% and a BS Rank of ⁠32% (14,489 of 21,180 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 68.40% of the article peer group.

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First, officials in Snohomish County are seeking emergency permission to fix a crumbling levee near the city of Stanwood. 
Next, and this fire season is poised to be historic – not just because of the record-low snowpack and unprecedented spring heat. 
It will also be the first for the U.S. 
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And finally, every spring, purple martins fly to Tacoma. 
The migratory birds travel over six-thousand miles from Brazil to breed here. 
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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: 5.4%Patricia Murphy: 1.9%KUOW: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic5.4%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: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 9.4%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 7.8%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion7.8%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: 13.2%Patricia Murphy: 5.5%KUOW: 3.8%Optimism Bias13.2%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: 6.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias6.0%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: 6.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.9%KUOW: 2.7%Halo Effect6.0%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: 5.4%Patricia Murphy: 8.9%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority5.4%This article: 6.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma6.0%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: 7.8%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 0.8%Bandwagon7.8%This article: 7.8%Patricia Murphy: 4.3%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion7.8%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.5%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%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: 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: 5.4%Patricia Murphy: 2.2%KUOW: 1.0%Unattributed Quote5.4%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 22.8%Patricia Murphy: 4.7%KUOW: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice22.8%This article: 13.8%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.5%Indoctrination13.8%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: 13.8%Patricia Murphy: 5.6%KUOW: 1.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…13.8%

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