Berkeleyside31%
The Wire: UC Berkeley repatriating 36 lots of Indigenous remains 9%
By Berkeleyside Staff17%
7/24/2026, 12:17:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 35.2% saturation with 51 hits. Analysis detected 62 faulty-reasoning hits from 145 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 26% and a BS Rank of 9% (19,303 of 21,172 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 91.20% of the article peer group.
UC Berkeley is working to repatriate 36 lots of artifacts to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians.
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
7.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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145 words analyzed.
Analysis
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