An 1877 tall ship from Galveston, Texas is celebrating Sail Boston ⁠2%

By Sharon Brody⁠0% Paul Connearney⁠0%

7/11/2026, 3:14:16 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 27.5% saturation with 19 hits. Analysis detected 30 faulty-reasoning hits from 69 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 10.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠2% (21,551 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 98.50% of the article peer group.

Tall ships from more than 20 countries are sailing into Boston Harbor Saturday. 
The USS Constitution escorted the ships led by the U.S. 
Coast Guard's tall ship Eagle. 
Among the vessels in the parade was the Elissa, a tall ship launched in 1877 and now based in Galveston, Texas. 
Crew member Ryan Bradfield joined 90.9 WBUR from aboard. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 2.4%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.5%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 2.3%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 3.9%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.8%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 3.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.7%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 5.0%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 1.1%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.7%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 2.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.9%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.2%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 2.6%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 1.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 3.5%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 5.4%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.5%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 2.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 27.5%Sharon Brody: 6.9%Cognoscenti: 0.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)27.5%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.9%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 15.9%Sharon Brody: 4.0%Cognoscenti: 3.0%Biased Writer Voice15.9%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 1.4%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sharon Brody: 0.0%Cognoscenti: 1.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

69 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker13%attributed speech60writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 0.0% coverageRyan Bradfield • 9 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Ryan Bradfield

100%flagged-word coverage
9 attributed words100% of attributed speech35% writer coverage
0%10.0%20.0%Biased Writer Voice-18.3 ptsWriter: 18.3%Ryan Bradfield: 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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