BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Pessimism Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 78.7% saturation with 48 hits. Analysis detected 163 faulty-reasoning hits from 61 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 30.7% and a BS Rank of 16% (19,189 of 22,840 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 84.00% of the article peer group.
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Confirmation Bias
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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
27.9%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
78.7%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
27.9%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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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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61 words analyzed.
Analysis
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