BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Fundamental Attribution Error, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 56.2% saturation with 68 hits. Analysis detected 494 faulty-reasoning hits from 121 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 60.7% and a BS Rank of 66% (5,489 of 15,903 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 65.50% of the article peer group.
Stripe and Advent made a $53 billion bid to buy PayPal.
PayPal was valued at $360 billion in 2021, but that has now fallen to just $36 billion due to competition from Apple Pay and other rivals.
Stripe is making ambitious moves: Its subsidiary Bridge, which issues stablecoins, this year won conditional approval for a national trust bank charter, something the traditional banking industry has strenuously opposed, arguing it lets Stripe hold deposits in all but name without insurance or Fed oversight.
Buying PayPal would give the payment-processing firm access to its 400 million customers and their online wallets, useful infrastructure for the stablecoin plan.
But, so far, PayPal has not acknowledged the offer.
Confirmation Bias
37.2%Confirmation Bias
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37.2%AuthorTom Chivers
8%PublicationSemafor
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Anchoring Bias
21.5%Anchoring Bias
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21.5%AuthorTom Chivers
4.9%PublicationSemafor
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
2%PublicationSemafor
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0.6%PublicationSemafor
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
4.5%PublicationSemafor
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
3.1%PublicationSemafor
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Framing Effect
56.2%Framing Effect
OverallThis article
56.2%AuthorTom Chivers
15.9%PublicationSemafor
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
1.3%PublicationSemafor
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Optimism Bias
19%Optimism Bias
OverallThis article
19%AuthorTom Chivers
13.3%PublicationSemafor
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
4.5%PublicationSemafor
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Negativity Bias
44.6%Negativity Bias
OverallThis article
44.6%AuthorTom Chivers
12%PublicationSemafor
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Fundamental Attribution Error
37.2%Fundamental Attribution Error
OverallThis article
37.2%AuthorTom Chivers
2.3%PublicationSemafor
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
1.3%PublicationSemafor
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Recency Bias
21.5%Recency Bias
OverallThis article
21.5%AuthorTom Chivers
4.4%PublicationSemafor
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Appeal to Authority
37.2%Appeal to Authority
OverallThis article
37.2%AuthorTom Chivers
13.7%PublicationSemafor
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
1.9%PublicationSemafor
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Hasty Generalization
19%Hasty Generalization
OverallThis article
19%AuthorTom Chivers
16.9%PublicationSemafor
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
3.1%PublicationSemafor
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
1.3%PublicationSemafor
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
3.6%PublicationSemafor
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
1.3%PublicationSemafor
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
21.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)
OverallThis article
21.5%AuthorTom Chivers
13.8%PublicationSemafor
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
OverallThis article
0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
1.4%PublicationSemafor
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
2.1%PublicationSemafor
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Special Pleading
37.2%Special Pleading
OverallThis article
37.2%AuthorTom Chivers
4.2%PublicationSemafor
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Unattributed Quote
0%Unattributed Quote
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
4.5%PublicationSemafor
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
8.5%PublicationSemafor
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Biased Writer Voice
37.2%Biased Writer Voice
OverallThis article
37.2%AuthorTom Chivers
14.4%PublicationSemafor
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0.2%PublicationSemafor
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
19%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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19%AuthorTom Chivers
1.7%PublicationSemafor
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121 words analyzed.
Analysis
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