The Dispatch56%
The State of Indie Literature in America 73%
By Nick Pompella93%
7/31/2026, 11:45:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Anchoring Bias, Status Quo Bias, and Sunk Cost Effect, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 79.1% saturation with 72 hits. Analysis detected 440 faulty-reasoning hits from 91 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 59.3% and a BS Rank of 73% (7,078 of 26,005 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 72.80% of the article peer group.
No one has any idea what’s happening in the book publishing industry.
The entire bookselling model has undergone such a profound sequence of shocks stretching back to the Harry Potter series—which basically crowned Barnes & Noble as the only profitable physical bookstore chain in perpetuity—that there’s little chance to reset the balance.
Nick Pompella is a science writer, editor, and reporter at Purdue University.
He also works as a freelance fiction editor, and has published art criticism and foreign policy analysis for National Review.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
44%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
13.2%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
44%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
44%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
44%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
13.2%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
22%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
22%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
44%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
44%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
13.2%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)
44%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)
13.2%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
79.1%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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91 words analyzed.
Analysis
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