BS Summary: This article contains 1 faulty reasoning type, including Negativity Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 29.9% saturation with 46 hits. Analysis detected 46 faulty-reasoning hits from 154 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 21.1% and a BS Rank of 6% (14,927 of 15,741 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 94.80% of the article peer group.
Chicago Police Department | Sun-Times file photo
Sun-Times file photo
Police were trying to find the person responsible for gunning down a 19-year-old man early Saturday in the South Chicago neighborhood.
Jaylen Hood, 19, was in a residence in the 8100 block of South Manistee Avenue when someone shot him multiple times, police said.
Hood, of the 8100 block of South Manistee Avenue, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 6:41 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
No one has been arrested and Area 2 detectives are investigating.
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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
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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
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Negativity Bias
29.9%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
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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
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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
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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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154 words analyzed.
Analysis
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