Western Washington flood resources: Where to find shelter and supplies⁠78%

By Teo Popescu⁠0%

12/12/2025, 4:44:09 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Optimism Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 54.9% saturation with 39 hits. Analysis detected 106 faulty-reasoning hits from 71 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 69.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠78% (4,866 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 77.80% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 8.5%Teo Popescu: 3.1%KUOW: 1.3%Anchoring Bias8.5%This article: 54.9%Teo Popescu: 5.0%KUOW: 3.4%Availability Heuristic54.9%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.3%KUOW: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 2.4%KUOW: 2.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 23.9%Teo Popescu: 7.0%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect23.9%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.6%KUOW: 2.7%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.3%KUOW: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.4%KUOW: 2.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 1.8%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 23.9%Teo Popescu: 3.7%KUOW: 8.0%Negativity Bias23.9%This article: 16.9%Teo Popescu: 1.6%KUOW: 3.8%Optimism Bias16.9%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.4%KUOW: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 1.7%KUOW: 1.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.6%KUOW: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 8.5%Teo Popescu: 2.7%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias8.5%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.7%KUOW: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 3.6%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.6%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 1.0%KUOW: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 1.6%KUOW: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 3.3%KUOW: 3.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 12.7%Teo Popescu: 7.0%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority12.7%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 4.0%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.7%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.7%KUOW: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.7%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 5.4%KUOW: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 2.8%KUOW: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.5%KUOW: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Teo Popescu: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%

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