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Portland Fire hold the Mystics to 29% shooting in a 75-56 rout 2%

By AP staff1%

7/17/2026, 2:27:37 PM

Keywords: Sports, Basketball

BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 8.1% saturation with 12 hits. Analysis detected 24 faulty-reasoning hits from 149 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 11.2% and a BS Rank of 2% (17,330 of 17,595 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 98.50% of the article peer group.

Carla Leite scored 14 points, Serah Williams had 12 points and the Portland Fire beat the Washington Mystics 75-56 on Thursday night. 
Sarah Ashlee Barker added 10 points to help Portland (11-14) avenge a quadruple-overtime loss to Washington on June 28. 
Frieda Buhner made all three of her 3-point attempts, and the Fire finished 10 of 35 from distance. 
Shakira Austin had 19 points and nine rebounds for Washington (12-11). 
The Mystics shot 29% from the field, going 2 of 21 from 3-point range, to go with 19 turnovers. 
Portland jumped out to a 28-13 lead after the first quarter and extended it to 43-20 by the midway point of the second. 
The Fire led by double figures the entire second half. 
Up next 
Fire: At Minnesota on Saturday night. 
Mystics: At Golden State on Saturday night. 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
8.1%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
0%
Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
0%
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
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
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
0%
Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
8.1%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

149 words analyzed.

Analysis

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