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Weekend Listen: PNW Bosnian community celebrates the World Cup, tiny forests are sprouting up in WA, and citizen scientists are counting pikas in the Columbia River Gorge. ⁠17%

By Patricia Murphy⁠0%

6/27/2026, 12:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Hasty Generalization, and Framing Effect, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 27.6% saturation with 63 hits. Analysis detected 416 faulty-reasoning hits from 228 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 32.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠17% (17,679 of 21,230 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 83.30% of the article peer group.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina fans celebrated as their national soccer team made history in Seattle this week. The country made it the furthest they’ve been in the World Cup. 
Northwest News Network contributor Grace Madigan has more about what it means to the Bosnian community in the Northwest. 
Tiny, pocket forests are sprouting up all around Washington state. 
On old, abandoned fields and in people’s backyards. 
These forests are meant to mimic nature and to grow quickly. 
It also helps increase biodiversity. NWPB’s Courtney Flatt takes us to one of the Yakama Nation’s mini-forests. 
American pikas are an ’indicator species.’ If they’re doing OK, there’s a good chance the local ecosystem is doing OK. 
That’s one reason why the Oregon Zoo and other groups are looking for people this summer to go out and count pikas. 
OPB’s Kristian Foden-Vencil has the story. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 9.6%Patricia Murphy: 2.3%KUOW: 2.6%Confirmation Bias9.6%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.8%KUOW: 1.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 20.2%Patricia Murphy: 5.6%KUOW: 3.4%Availability Heuristic20.2%This article: 8.3%Patricia Murphy: 1.9%KUOW: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic8.3%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.4%KUOW: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 7.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.9%KUOW: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias7.0%This article: 11.8%Patricia Murphy: 9.4%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect11.8%This article: 5.3%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion5.3%This article: 3.5%Patricia Murphy: 1.4%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias3.5%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 9.2%Patricia Murphy: 5.5%KUOW: 3.8%Optimism Bias9.2%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: 4.4%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias4.4%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: 27.6%Patricia Murphy: 8.9%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority27.6%This article: 4.4%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma4.4%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.7%KUOW: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 8.3%Patricia Murphy: 0.5%KUOW: 0.1%Circular Reasoning8.3%This article: 20.2%Patricia Murphy: 7.0%KUOW: 4.1%Hasty Generalization20.2%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: 7.9%Patricia Murphy: 4.3%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion7.9%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: 4.8%Patricia Murphy: 0.3%KUOW: 0.2%Appeal to Nature4.8%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: 11.8%Patricia Murphy: 4.7%KUOW: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice11.8%This article: 8.3%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.5%Indoctrination8.3%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: 9.6%Patricia Murphy: 5.6%KUOW: 1.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…9.6%

228 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers18%attributed speech187writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 27 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 0.0% coverageGrace Madigan • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageCourtney Flatt • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 0.0% coverageKristian Foden-Vencil • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Courtney Flatt

100%flagged-word coverage
16 attributed words39% of attributed speech87% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+94.1 ptsWriter: 5.9%Courtney Flatt: 100.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -11.8 ptsWriter: 11.8%Courtney Flatt: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-10.2 ptsWriter: 10.2%Courtney Flatt: 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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