L.A. TACO86%

A Completely Interactive Guide To L.A. Voter Guides 84%

5/27/2026, 6:51:39 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including In-Group Bias, Politically Left Leaning Bias, and Confirmation Bias, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 39.6% saturation with 38 hits. Analysis detected 228 faulty-reasoning hits from 96 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 76% and a BS Rank of 84% (2,830 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 83.20% of the article peer group.

L.A. 
TACO doesn't endorse candidates. 
Instead, we've compiled the endorsements of 14 different organizations, including advocacy groups, local media outlets, progressive groups, and unions. 
Most of these are progressive-leaning organizations, or others we think align with the average readership of L.A. 
TACO. 
We also built a consensus analysis for all of their endorsement picks when possible. 
Please use this interactive guide-- you can select or deselect various organizations to better match your preferences, and you can create your own printable cheat sheet by clicking on the tabs below. 
Confirmation Bias
17.7%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
14.6%
Representativeness Heuristic
17.7%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
14.6%
Framing Effect
0%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
0%
Self-Serving Bias
4.2%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
37.5%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
14.6%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
17.7%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
4.2%
Indoctrination
17.7%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
37.5%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
39.6%

96 words analyzed.

Analysis

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