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April 18  KUER Mug Stop: Neighborhood Hive 81%

By KUER 90.10%

2/22/2026, 3:13:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Loss Aversion, and Framing Effect, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 61.4% saturation with 89 hits. Analysis detected 141 faulty-reasoning hits from 145 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 73.4% and a BS Rank of 81% (3,282 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 80.50% of the article peer group.

On Saturday, April 18, KUER will be at Neighborhood Hive in Salt Lake City for a Mug Stop from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. 
Stop by the coffee shop to chat with Morning Edition host Ciara Hulet and other KUER staff, snag an exclusive mug and enjoy some great coffee. 
For a $20 donation, you'll be able to get our new mug designed by local artist Paul Tew. 
This sleek design is only available in-person at our Mug Stops. 
And, as a bonus, you'll be able to fill it up with a free cup of coffee from our friends at Neighborhood Hive. 
Come out, grab a mug and support KUER's Spring Fund Drive. 
Spring Fund Drive Mug Stop: Neighborhood Hive 
Saturday, April 18, 2026 | 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. 
2065 E 2100 S, Salt Lake City 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
0%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
7.6%
Loss Aversion
12.4%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
15.9%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
0%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
0%
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)
0%
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
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
61.4%

145 words analyzed.

Analysis

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