The holidays are a great time for cheap Costco wine⁠94%

By Patricia Murphy⁠0%

12/24/2025, 5:45:01 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Anchoring Bias, Halo Effect, and Appeal to Authority, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 75.9% saturation with 60 hits. Analysis detected 242 faulty-reasoning hits from 79 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 89% and a BS Rank of ⁠94% (1,470 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 93.30% of the article peer group.

Today, we’re bringing you the best from another KUOW show, Seattle Eats… 
The holidays are here — the season for cookies, roasts, seafood… and wine. 
And if you want the best deals on good wine… Seattle Times food critic, Tan Vinh says… head to Costco. 
On the latest episode of Seattle Eats, Tan sat down with Seattle Times politics reporter David Gutman to taste-test Costco’s best wines that are 20 dollars or less. 
Listen to more Seattle Eats here. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 60.8%Patricia Murphy: 1.8%KUOW: 1.3%Anchoring Bias60.8%This article: 16.5%Patricia Murphy: 5.6%KUOW: 3.4%Availability Heuristic16.5%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.3%KUOW: 2.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 75.9%Patricia Murphy: 9.4%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect75.9%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.6%KUOW: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 60.8%Patricia Murphy: 4.9%KUOW: 2.7%Halo Effect60.8%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.4%KUOW: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.3%KUOW: 2.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 6.8%KUOW: 8.0%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 15.2%Patricia Murphy: 5.5%KUOW: 3.8%Optimism Bias15.2%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.7%KUOW: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.9%KUOW: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.9%KUOW: 1.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 16.5%Patricia Murphy: 1.9%KUOW: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic16.5%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%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: 0.0%KUOW: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.4%KUOW: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.2%KUOW: 3.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 60.8%Patricia Murphy: 8.9%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority60.8%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.3%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.3%KUOW: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.5%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.5%KUOW: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.3%KUOW: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.1%KUOW: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 7.0%KUOW: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.1%KUOW: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.7%KUOW: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.4%KUOW: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.7%KUOW: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%

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