WBEZ Chicago12%
A good lake, not a great lake 63%
By The Curious City Team82%
7/8/2026, 10:00:00 AM
Keywords: A Good Lake Not A Great Lake
BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Biased Writer Voice, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 28.4% saturation with 40 hits. Analysis detected 360 faulty-reasoning hits from 141 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 58.6% and a BS Rank of 63% (6,613 of 17,815 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 62.90% of the article peer group.
For a brief time in 1998, there were six Great Lakes instead of five.
The change quickly made national headlines, and Midwesterners took notice.
They were shocked and outraged.
Wedged between New York and Vermont, Lake Champlain is long, skinny, and relatively small — only 435 square miles.
It just didn’t measure up to the other Great Lakes.
How this lake made it into this exclusive club has to do with some language quietly added to an uncontroversial bill in Congress.
Curious City partners with the Points North podcast from Interlochen Public Radio to dive into the story behind Lake Champlain’s short stint as a Great Lake.
Press play to listen and read the story here.
Points North is a podcast about the land, water, and inhabitants of the Great Lakes.
Follow them @pointsnorthpodcast
Confirmation Bias
16.3%Confirmation Bias
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16.3%AuthorThe Curious City Team
5.4%PublicationWBEZ
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
17%Availability Heuristic
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17%AuthorThe Curious City Team
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Representativeness Heuristic
13.5%Representativeness Heuristic
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13.5%AuthorThe Curious City Team
6.9%PublicationWBEZ
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
28.4%Framing Effect
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28.4%AuthorThe Curious City Team
26%PublicationWBEZ
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorThe Curious City Team
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Negativity Bias
15.6%Negativity Bias
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15.6%AuthorThe Curious City Team
10.4%PublicationWBEZ
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
6.4%Recency Bias
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6.4%AuthorThe Curious City Team
2.1%PublicationWBEZ
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
10.6%Appeal to Authority
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10.6%AuthorThe Curious City Team
3.5%PublicationWBEZ
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorThe Curious City Team
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
9.2%Bandwagon
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9.2%AuthorThe Curious City Team
3.1%PublicationWBEZ
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Appeal to Emotion
10.6%Appeal to Emotion
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10.6%AuthorThe Curious City Team
3.5%PublicationWBEZ
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
16.3%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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16.3%AuthorThe Curious City Team
5.4%PublicationWBEZ
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
23.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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23.4%AuthorThe Curious City Team
7.8%PublicationWBEZ
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
5%Middle Ground
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5%AuthorThe Curious City Team
1.7%PublicationWBEZ
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
16.3%Unattributed Quote
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16.3%AuthorThe Curious City Team
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
23.4%Biased Writer Voice
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23.4%AuthorThe Curious City Team
14.9%PublicationWBEZ
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Indoctrination
16.3%Indoctrination
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16.3%AuthorThe Curious City Team
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
27%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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27%AuthorThe Curious City Team
11.8%PublicationWBEZ
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141 words analyzed.
Analysis
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