STAT⁠62%

He grew up near Boston, went to Harvard, and worked at MIT. Why did he found his startup in California? ⁠83%

By Emma Platoff — Boston Globe⁠96%

8/7/2026, 1:30:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Status Quo Bias, Optimism Bias, and Anecdotal, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 51.6% saturation with 66 hits. Analysis detected 252 faulty-reasoning hits from 128 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 66.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠83% (5,376 of 30,584 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 82.40% of the article peer group.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — By all rights, Felix Wong and his company should be in Massachusetts. 
Wong, 33, was born in Quincy, graduated from Braintree High School, and spent a decade living in Cambridge, where he earned two degrees from Harvard and worked as a post-doc at MIT. 
His parents still live in Massachusetts, and he now leads a startup in biotech, an industry Boston has owned for the better part of two decades. 
But on a recent Wednesday, Wong was in sunny Silicon Valley, walking in the shade of the jacaranda trees near the hiking trail outside his office and reflecting on the creative spirit of California. 
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128 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker25%attributed speech96writer words
Selected voice

Felix Wong

100%flagged-word coverage
32 attributed words100% of attributed speech88% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+64.6 ptsWriter: 35.4%Felix Wong: 100.0%100.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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