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April 23  State Street Trivia: Do You Know More Than a Utah Lawmaker? 65%

By KUER 90.10%

2/24/2026, 8:18:28 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Biased Writer Voice, and Availability Heuristic, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 57.1% saturation with 109 hits. Analysis detected 504 faulty-reasoning hits from 191 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 59.8% and a BS Rank of 65% (5,897 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 64.90% of the article peer group.

Are you a casual observer of Utah politics, liking a #utpol post here and there? 
Or maybe you watch the 45-day legislative session like college sports fans watch March Madness? 
Wherever you fall on the spectrum of civic engagement, KUER's State Street team invites you to a night of politics-themed trivia. 
When: Thursday, April 23. 
Doors open at 6 p.m. 
Grab a brew and get settled with your team before trivia starts at 6:30 p.m. 
The event is free, but tickets are required. 
Where: Fisher Brewing Company, 320 West 800 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84101. 
Food trucks will be on-site. 
Hosts Sean Higgins and Hugo Rikard-Bell will quiz you, your friends and a team of Utah legislators on a wide variety of topics. 
Expect rounds touching on everything from pop culture to Utah by the numbers and yes: POLITICS! 
All with a dash of silliness you've come to expect from the State Street crew. 
Plus, listen closely to the most recent season of State Street: there may just be a few answers hidden in those episodes. 
Confirmation Bias
7.9%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
19.4%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
42.4%
Loss Aversion
4.2%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
18.8%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
8.4%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
19.4%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
7.9%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
19.4%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
12%
False Dilemma
7.3%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
7.9%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
31.9%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
57.1%

191 words analyzed.

Analysis

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