BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Framing Effect, and Status Quo Bias, with Primacy Effect as the most egregious example at 80% saturation with 56 hits. Analysis detected 178 faulty-reasoning hits from 70 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 63.2% and a BS Rank of 77% (5,909 of 25,459 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 76.80% of the article peer group.
The brand-new Women's Professional Baseball League begins on Saturday.
It will be the first time in 70 years that the best women baseball players in the world will compete on a professional stage.
Host Anthony Brooks learns more with Justine Siegal, a co-founder and the first woman to coach for a Major League Baseball team when she was with the former Oakland Athletics in 2015.
Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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2.2%PublicationCognoscenti
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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6%PublicationCognoscenti
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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1%PublicationCognoscenti
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0.8%PublicationCognoscenti
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Framing Effect
34.3%Framing Effect
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34.3%AuthorHere
25.2%PublicationCognoscenti
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
34.3%Status Quo Bias
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34.3%AuthorHere
0.8%PublicationCognoscenti
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorHere
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0.8%PublicationCognoscenti
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorHere
0.9%PublicationCognoscenti
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Negativity Bias
0%Negativity Bias
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0%AuthorHere
21.4%PublicationCognoscenti
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorHere
0%PublicationCognoscenti
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0.6%PublicationCognoscenti
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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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0%AuthorHere
1%PublicationCognoscenti
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorHere
2.1%PublicationCognoscenti
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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0%AuthorHere
1.1%PublicationCognoscenti
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorHere
1%PublicationCognoscenti
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
12.9%Recency Bias
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12.9%AuthorHere
8.6%PublicationCognoscenti
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Primacy Effect
80%Primacy Effect
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80%AuthorHere
2.7%PublicationCognoscenti
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorHere
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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3.1%PublicationCognoscenti
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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0%PublicationCognoscenti
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Appeal to Authority
45.7%Appeal to Authority
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45.7%AuthorHere
9.3%PublicationCognoscenti
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorHere
2%PublicationCognoscenti
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorHere
0%PublicationCognoscenti
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%AuthorHere
0%PublicationCognoscenti
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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5.1%PublicationCognoscenti
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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2%PublicationCognoscenti
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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0%PublicationCognoscenti
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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2%PublicationCognoscenti
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0%AuthorHere
3.2%PublicationCognoscenti
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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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0%PublicationCognoscenti
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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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
0%Unattributed Quote
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0.4%PublicationCognoscenti
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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0%AuthorHere
0.2%PublicationCognoscenti
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Biased Writer Voice
12.9%Biased Writer Voice
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12.9%AuthorHere
24.8%PublicationCognoscenti
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Indoctrination
34.3%Indoctrination
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34.3%AuthorHere
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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
0%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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70 words analyzed.
Analysis
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