The Dispatch55%
Why Some Americans Want to Be Disabled 91%
By Jon Gingerich99%
7/31/2026, 11:45:00 PM
Topics: Society And Culture
BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Biased Writer Voice, and Actor-Observer Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 48.6% saturation with 35 hits. Analysis detected 196 faulty-reasoning hits from 72 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 80.9% and a BS Rank of 91% (2,402 of 25,430 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 90.60% of the article peer group.
When I started going blind, I considered it a death sentence.
I was terrified of losing my eyesight, for reasons that I think are understandable.
I was embarrassed about being disabled and resented the inconvenience of it, the way this thing had entered my life like an uninvited guest.
There’s something inherently final about disability, but no one tells you how remarkably anticlimactic it is.
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
9.7%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
22.2%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
48.6%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
19.4%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
33.3%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
22.2%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
48.6%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
19.4%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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72 words analyzed.
Analysis
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