NBC Chicago⁠74%

West Pullman ⁠68%

By Vi Nguyen⁠90%

7/24/2026, 1:12:02 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Hasty Generalization, and Availability Heuristic, with Post Hoc (False Cause) as the most egregious example at 25.5% saturation with 56 hits. Analysis detected 305 faulty-reasoning hits from 220 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 61.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠68% (7,076 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 67.70% of the article peer group.

Urban farmer sees more people wanting to grow lettuce amid cyclosporiasis outbreak 
More and more people are wanting to grow their own lettuce and vegetables following the cyclospora outbreak. 
An urban farm on Chicago’s far south side said they’ve been fielding calls from new gardeners in recent weeks. 
Natasha Nicholes tends to her farm in West Pullman near West 120th Street and South Union Avenue and said it’s been a busy... 
Urban farmer sees more people wanting to grow lettuce amid cyclosporiasis outbreak 
More and more people are wanting to grow their own lettuce and vegetables following the cyclospora outbreak. 
Vi Nguyen reports. 
Man and his dog shot after telling speeding driver to ‘slow down' in West Pullman 
A man and his dog were shot and wounded after he told a speeding driver to “slow down” Tuesday morning in West Pullman on the Far South Side. 
Police search for suspect after man and his dog shot in West Pullman 
Police are looking for an assailant in a red car who opened fire, shooting a man and his dog Tuesday morning in the West Pullman neighborhood. 
Vehicle fleeing police pursuit slams into PACE bus, leaving 11 hurt 
A vehicle fleeing a suburban Blue Island police stop slammed into a PACE bus in Chicago, leaving at least 11 people injured. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.5%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 15.5%Vi Nguyen: 19.1%NBC Chicago: 3.1%Availability Heuristic15.5%This article: 8.6%Vi Nguyen: 2.9%NBC Chicago: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic8.6%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.6%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 10.9%Vi Nguyen: 3.6%NBC Chicago: 9.1%Framing Effect10.9%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 1.1%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 2.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 1.4%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 11.8%Vi Nguyen: 21.4%NBC Chicago: 11.8%Negativity Bias11.8%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.4%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.4%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 3.6%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 1.7%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.2%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.1%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 2.3%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 1.0%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 20.9%Vi Nguyen: 12.1%NBC Chicago: 2.6%Hasty Generalization20.9%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 1.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 6.8%Vi Nguyen: 2.3%NBC Chicago: 3.4%Appeal to Emotion6.8%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.2%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 25.5%Vi Nguyen: 8.5%NBC Chicago: 1.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)25.5%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.2%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.0%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 21.4%Vi Nguyen: 13.6%NBC Chicago: 1.8%Anecdotal21.4%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 5.0%Vi Nguyen: 1.7%NBC Chicago: 2.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)5.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 1.6%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 6.8%Vi Nguyen: 2.3%NBC Chicago: 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection6.8%This article: 5.5%Vi Nguyen: 1.8%NBC Chicago: 10.1%Biased Writer Voice5.5%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Vi Nguyen: 0.0%NBC Chicago: 4.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S
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220 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker10%attributed speech197writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice ‱ 2 words ‱ 0.0% coverageWriter's voice ‱ 12 words ‱ 100.0% coverageWriter's voice ‱ 17 words ‱ 0.0% coverageWriter's voice ‱ 19 words ‱ 0.0% coverageNatasha Nicholes ‱ 23 words ‱ 0.0% coverageWriter's voice ‱ 12 words ‱ 0.0% coverageWriter's voice ‱ 17 words ‱ 0.0% coverageWriter's voice ‱ 3 words ‱ 0.0% coverageWriter's voice ‱ 15 words ‱ 100.0% coverageWriter's voice ‱ 28 words ‱ 0.0% coverageWriter's voice ‱ 13 words ‱ 0.0% coverageWriter's voice ‱ 26 words ‱ 0.0% coverageWriter's voice ‱ 11 words ‱ 0.0% coverageWriter's voice ‱ 22 words ‱ 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Natasha Nicholes

0%flagged-word coverage
23 attributed words100% of attributed speech91% writer coverage
0%5.0%10.0%Quote-first Misdirection-7.6 ptsWriter: 7.6%Natasha Nicholes: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-6.1 ptsWriter: 6.1%Natasha Nicholes: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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