BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Halo Effect, and Anchoring Bias, with In-Group Bias as the most egregious example at 43.6% saturation with 41 hits. Analysis detected 158 faulty-reasoning hits from 94 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 74.1% and a BS Rank of 82% (3,163 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 81.20% of the article peer group.
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Anchoring Bias
13.8%Anchoring Bias
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13.8%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
15.2%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
3.9%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
12.1%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Framing Effect
8.5%Framing Effect
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8.5%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
20.6%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Halo Effect
18.1%Halo Effect
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18.1%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
29.4%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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In-Group Bias
43.6%In-Group Bias
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43.6%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
46.1%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Negativity Bias
0%Negativity Bias
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Optimism Bias
7.4%Optimism Bias
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7.4%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
5%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Overconfidence Bias
5.3%Overconfidence Bias
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5.3%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
4.3%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
10.6%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
17%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Self-Serving Bias
13.8%Self-Serving Bias
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13.8%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
6.7%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
8.9%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Appeal to Authority
31.9%Appeal to Authority
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31.9%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
27.3%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Appeal to Emotion
13.8%Appeal to Emotion
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13.8%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
19.1%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Bandwagon
11.7%Bandwagon
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11.7%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
24.8%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
14.5%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
0%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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0%AuthorLauren Antonoff Hart
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94 words analyzed.
Analysis
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