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.
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Confirmation Bias
17.7%Confirmation Bias
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17.7%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
14.6%Availability Heuristic
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14.6%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Representativeness Heuristic
17.7%Representativeness Heuristic
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17.7%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
14.6%Overconfidence Bias
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14.6%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Framing Effect
0%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
0%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
4.2%Self-Serving Bias
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4.2%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
37.5%In-Group Bias
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37.5%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
14.6%Appeal to Authority
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14.6%PublicationL.A. TACO
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Composition/Division
17.7%Composition/Division
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17.7%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
0%Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
4.2%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
17.7%Indoctrination
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17.7%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
37.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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37.5%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
39.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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39.6%PublicationL.A. TACO
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96 words analyzed.
Analysis
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