Decatur Daily95%
John Deere owners will get the right to repair their own equipment under a new FTC settlement 74%
By Sarah Raza The Associated Press54%
7/11/2026, 8:30:38 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 1 faulty reasoning type, including Indoctrination, with Indoctrination as the most egregious example at 41% saturation with 71 hits. Analysis detected 71 faulty-reasoning hits from 173 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 68.9% and a BS Rank of 74% (3,723 of 13,932 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 73.30% of the article peer group.
John Deere has faced complaints for years for withholding the software needed for repairs and forcing customers to use authorized dealers instead of independent ones.
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Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%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
0%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
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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
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%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
0%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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)
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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
41%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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173 words analyzed.
Analysis
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