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12/11/2025, 11:44:14 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Out-Group Homogeneity Bias, and Hasty Generalization, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 57.4% saturation with 35 hits. Analysis detected 170 faulty-reasoning hits from 61 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 88.9% and a BS Rank of 93% (1,235 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 92.70% of the article peer group.
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorHolly J. Morris
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Anchoring Bias
24.6%Anchoring Bias
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24.6%AuthorHolly J. Morris
24.6%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Availability Heuristic
57.4%Availability Heuristic
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57.4%AuthorHolly J. Morris
37.7%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Framing Effect
0%Framing Effect
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0%AuthorHolly J. Morris
50%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorHolly J. Morris
0%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Halo Effect
37.7%Halo Effect
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37.7%AuthorHolly J. Morris
37.7%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorHolly J. Morris
18.9%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorHolly J. Morris
0%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Negativity Bias
26.2%Negativity Bias
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26.2%AuthorHolly J. Morris
26.2%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0%AuthorHolly J. Morris
0%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
27.9%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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27.9%AuthorHolly J. Morris
27.9%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Overconfidence Bias
24.6%Overconfidence Bias
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24.6%AuthorHolly J. Morris
24.6%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorHolly J. Morris
0%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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0%AuthorHolly J. Morris
4.1%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Recency Bias
26.2%Recency Bias
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26.2%AuthorHolly J. Morris
22.1%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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0%AuthorHolly J. Morris
0%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorHolly J. Morris
12.3%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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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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0%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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0%AuthorHolly J. Morris
18%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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0%AuthorHolly J. Morris
9%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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0%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Appeal to Emotion
18%Appeal to Emotion
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18%AuthorHolly J. Morris
9%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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4.9%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Begging the Question
8.2%Begging the Question
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8.2%AuthorHolly J. Morris
4.1%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0%AuthorHolly J. Morris
0%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Hasty Generalization
27.9%Hasty Generalization
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27.9%AuthorHolly J. Morris
40.2%PublicationGoats and Soda (NPR)
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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61 words analyzed.
Analysis
Hover over highlighted words in the article to view the associated bias or fallacy analysis.