BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Halo Effect, and Availability Heuristic, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 91.4% saturation with 64 hits. Analysis detected 226 faulty-reasoning hits from 70 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 79.5% and a BS Rank of 87% (2,754 of 20,022 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 86.20% of the article peer group.
If you really want to know what makes Boston run, you must read Howie Carr’s columns.
He writes three times a week — and often more!
You can count on him chasing down every hot tip and pivoting to national politics when others cower from the hard truth.
If you want your news sugar-coated, try elsewhere.
It’s not what he delivers!
Howie doesn't sleep.
(Herald file photo)
Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorBoston Herald staff
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
31.4%Availability Heuristic
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31.4%AuthorBoston Herald staff
10.5%Publicationbostonherald
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorBoston Herald staff
9%Publicationbostonherald
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Framing Effect
0%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorBoston Herald staff
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Negativity Bias
7.1%Negativity Bias
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7.1%AuthorBoston Herald staff
12.9%Publicationbostonherald
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorBoston Herald staff
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorBoston Herald staff
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Halo Effect
35.7%Halo Effect
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35.7%AuthorBoston Herald staff
35.2%Publicationbostonherald
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
14.3%Recency Bias
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14.3%AuthorBoston Herald staff
4.8%Publicationbostonherald
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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0%AuthorBoston Herald staff
15.2%Publicationbostonherald
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False Dilemma
11.4%False Dilemma
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11.4%AuthorBoston Herald staff
11.4%Publicationbostonherald
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorBoston Herald staff
0%Publicationbostonherald
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
31.4%Hasty Generalization
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31.4%AuthorBoston Herald staff
18.1%Publicationbostonherald
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
22.9%Appeal to Emotion
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22.9%AuthorBoston Herald staff
20.5%Publicationbostonherald
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorBoston Herald staff
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
4.3%Anecdotal
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4.3%AuthorBoston Herald staff
1.4%Publicationbostonherald
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
7.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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7.1%AuthorBoston Herald staff
2.4%Publicationbostonherald
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
0%Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
91.4%Biased Writer Voice
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91.4%AuthorBoston Herald staff
79.5%Publicationbostonherald
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Indoctrination
11.4%Indoctrination
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11.4%AuthorBoston Herald staff
15.2%Publicationbostonherald
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorBoston Herald staff
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
54.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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54.3%AuthorBoston Herald staff
18.1%Publicationbostonherald
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70 words analyzed.
Analysis
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