BS Summary: This article contains 5 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic, and Hasty Generalization, with Anchoring Bias as the most egregious example at 17.3% saturation with 23 hits. Analysis detected 76 faulty-reasoning hits from 133 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 11.8% and a BS Rank of 4% (24,652 of 25,429 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 96.90% of the article peer group.
Three small earthquakes struck Sonoma County within hours of each other early Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey.
First, a 3.8 magnitude quake struck 5 miles east of Cloverdale at 12:57 a.m. at a depth of 3.8 miles, the USGS reported.
At 4:35 a.m., a 2.8 magnitude quake struck 4 miles east of Cloverdale at a depth of 3.9 miles, the agency said.
It was followed by a 2.7 magnitude quake 5 miles east of Cloverdale at 4:50 a.m. at a depth of 2.5 miles, the USGS reported.
Cloverdale is in the Maacama Fault Zone, which runs north from Santa Rosa and Healdsburg toward Ukiah.
Small earthquakes occurring close together in time and location are common, seismologists say.
Reports of damage were not immediately available.
Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Anchoring Bias
17.3%Anchoring Bias
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17.3%AuthorWarren Pederson
2.5%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Availability Heuristic
15%Availability Heuristic
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15%AuthorWarren Pederson
3.7%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Representativeness Heuristic
9.8%Representativeness Heuristic
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9.8%AuthorWarren Pederson
1.4%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Framing Effect
0%Framing Effect
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
2.6%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Pessimism Bias
5.3%Pessimism Bias
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5.3%AuthorWarren Pederson
0.8%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Negativity Bias
0%Negativity Bias
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
2.7%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Hasty Generalization
9.8%Hasty Generalization
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9.8%AuthorWarren Pederson
1.4%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
0%Unattributed Quote
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Biased Writer Voice
0%Biased Writer Voice
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
0%PublicationSan Francisco Chronicle
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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0%AuthorWarren Pederson
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133 words analyzed.
Analysis
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