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The Queen of Nuclear Physics (Part One): Chien-Shiung Wu's Discovery 66%

By Emily Kwong0% Regina G. Barber0% Berly McCoy0%

5/20/2022, 4:10:28 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including In-Group Bias, Indoctrination, and Biased Writer Voice, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 53.8% saturation with 49 hits. Analysis detected 260 faulty-reasoning hits from 91 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 60.4% and a BS Rank of 66% (5,748 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 65.80% of the article peer group.

In the 1950's, a particle physicist made a landmark discovery that changed what was known about how the universe operates. 
Chien-Shiung Wu did it while raising a family and an ocean away from her relatives in China. 
Short Wave's Scientist-In-Residence Regina Barber joins host Emily Kwong to talk about that landmark discovery—what it meant for the physics world, and what it means to Regina personally as a woman and a Chinese and Mexican American in physics. 
Email the show at shortwave@npr.org. 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
0%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
53.8%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
18.7%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
0%
Self-Serving Bias
18.7%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
42.9%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
11%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
22%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
18.7%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
22%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
29.7%
Indoctrination
42.9%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
5.5%

91 words analyzed.

Analysis

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