Cannabis has been ‘reclassified.’ What do you want to know?95%
By Colorado Public Radio Staff0%
12/18/2025, 8:49:03 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Confirmation Bias, and In-Group Bias, with Anchoring Bias as the most egregious example at 78.4% saturation with 40 hits. Analysis detected 158 faulty-reasoning hits from 51 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 91.3% and a BS Rank of 95% (992 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 94.10% of the article peer group.
Eleven years after Colorado began recreational marijuana sales, President Trump has officially downgraded cannabis on the federal classification of controlled substances.
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Actor-Observer Bias
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Anchoring Bias
78.4%Anchoring Bias
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78.4%AuthorColorado Public Radio Staff
39.9%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Availability Heuristic
21.6%Availability Heuristic
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21.6%AuthorColorado Public Radio Staff
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Confirmation Bias
37.3%Confirmation Bias
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37.3%AuthorColorado Public Radio Staff
22.2%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Framing Effect
78.4%Framing Effect
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78.4%AuthorColorado Public Radio Staff
77.8%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Halo Effect
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Hindsight Bias
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Horn Effect
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In-Group Bias
29.4%In-Group Bias
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29.4%AuthorColorado Public Radio Staff
19.6%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Loss Aversion
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Negativity Bias
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Optimism Bias
21.6%Optimism Bias
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21.6%AuthorColorado Public Radio Staff
21.6%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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14.4%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Pessimism Bias
21.6%Pessimism Bias
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21.6%AuthorColorado Public Radio Staff
7.2%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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13.7%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Recency Bias
21.6%Recency Bias
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21.6%AuthorColorado Public Radio Staff
34.6%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Self-Serving Bias
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Ad Hominem
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Anecdotal
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Appeal to Authority
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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7.2%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Appeal to Nature
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Bandwagon
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Begging the Question
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7.2%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Burden of Proof
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9.8%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Circular Reasoning
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Composition/Division
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False Dilemma
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Genetic Fallacy
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Hasty Generalization
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Middle Ground
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No True Scotsman
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Personal Incredulity
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Red Herring
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Special Pleading
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Straw Man
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Tu Quoque
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51 words analyzed.
Analysis
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