BS Summary: This article contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Appeal to Authority, and Halo Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 39.1% saturation with 52 hits. Analysis detected 368 faulty-reasoning hits from 133 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 53% and a BS Rank of 55% (7,477 of 16,550 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 54.80% of the article peer group.
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Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
11.3%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
33.1%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
12%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
9.8%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
39.1%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
9%In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
17.3%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
8.3%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
9%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
20.3%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
9.8%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
8.3%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
16.5%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
12%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
1.5%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
9.8%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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133 words analyzed.
Analysis
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