Support West Indianapolis students with this school supply drive ⁠63%

By Carley Lanich⁠7%

7/24/2026, 9:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Framing Effect, and Halo Effect, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 59% saturation with 95 hits. Analysis detected 517 faulty-reasoning hits from 161 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 57.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠63% (8,233 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 62.40% of the article peer group.

You can help students in West Indianapolis return to school with supplies by supporting the Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center. 
The center is asking neighbors to purchase items from its Amazon Wishlist by July 29 to help students start the year with new supplies. 
The center’s list includes supplies such as glue, pens, paper, pencil cases and disinfecting wipes. 
To make a purchase, add items to your cart and select the gift registry address for delivery. 
Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center staff will make sure the supplies are provided to West Indianapolis students who make use of the center’s services. 
You can find more information on the neighborhood center’s Facebook page. 
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Mirror Indy reporter Carley Lanich covers early childhood and K-12 education. 
Contact her at carley.lanich@mirrorindy.org or follow her on X @carleylanich. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.5%Mirror Indy: 1.3%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.1%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 21.1%Carley Lanich: 1.5%Mirror Indy: 2.1%Availability Heuristic21.1%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.2%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.5%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 32.3%Carley Lanich: 5.9%Mirror Indy: 3.4%Framing Effect32.3%This article: 14.9%Carley Lanich: 2.0%Mirror Indy: 0.7%Loss Aversion14.9%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.2%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 14.3%Carley Lanich: 3.7%Mirror Indy: 3.3%Optimism Bias14.3%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 1.1%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 5.9%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 9.9%Carley Lanich: 0.7%Mirror Indy: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias9.9%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 17.4%Carley Lanich: 1.2%Mirror Indy: 1.5%In-Group Bias17.4%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 26.7%Carley Lanich: 3.6%Mirror Indy: 1.9%Halo Effect26.7%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 14.9%Carley Lanich: 1.1%Mirror Indy: 0.4%Recency Bias14.9%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 16.8%Carley Lanich: 3.7%Mirror Indy: 2.4%Appeal to Authority16.8%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.0%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.7%Mirror Indy: 3.7%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 3.7%Carley Lanich: 0.5%Mirror Indy: 0.1%Bandwagon3.7%This article: 17.4%Carley Lanich: 1.2%Mirror Indy: 2.2%Appeal to Emotion17.4%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.1%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 1.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 4.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 14.3%Carley Lanich: 1.0%Mirror Indy: 0.7%Unattributed Quote14.3%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.2%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 59.0%Carley Lanich: 5.5%Mirror Indy: 3.4%Biased Writer Voice59.0%This article: 5.6%Carley Lanich: 0.4%Mirror Indy: 0.7%Indoctrination5.6%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Carley Lanich: 0.0%Mirror Indy: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 52.8%Carley Lanich: 14.5%Mirror Indy: 1.8%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…52.8%

161 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers23%attributed speech124writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageMirror Indy • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageCarley Lanich • 11 words • 100.0% coverageCarley Lanich • 10 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Mirror Indy

100%flagged-word coverage
16 attributed words43% of attributed speech91% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+45.2 ptsWriter: 54.8%Mirror Indy: 100.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -60.5 ptsWriter: 60.5%Mirror Indy: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-18.5 ptsWriter: 18.5%Mirror Indy: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-7.3 ptsWriter: 7.3%Mirror Indy: 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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